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- Clinical Trial NCT02140359
Enhancing Housing First Programs With a Social Network Substance Use Intervention
November 21, 2017 updated by: David Kennedy, RAND
Housing First programs are promising approaches to transitioning substance using chronically homeless adults to affordable housing.
However, Housing First programs need to provide support to residents to adjust to their changing social environments.
The proposed project fulfills a critical gap by developing an electronic tool for a social network intervention using motivational interviewing techniques as well as results of a pilot test of the tool.
The hypothesis to be tested is that Housing First residents who are given the intervention will be significantly more motivated to change their drinking, drug use, sexual risk behaviors, and social networks compared to controls receiving usual care.
Study Overview
Status
Completed
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
We propose a 3-year study to develop and pilot test a social network substance use and HIV-risk intervention for permanent supportive housing program residents in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles.
The intervention will be developed for residents at the Skid Row Housing Trust (SRHT), one of the largest Housing First providers in Los Angeles.
Housing First residents are not required to abstain from alcohol and drugs as a requirement of their residency.
There is some evidence that providing housing rapidly to chronically homeless persons--along with support--helps to reduce substance use and HIV risk behaviors in the short term because homelessness is the primary cause of high-risk behavior.
However, the evidence thus far is limited.
One aspect that has not received much research attention is the needs of Housing First residents for support to transition their social networks while transitioning out of homeless into residency in a Housing First program.
New residents are exposed to a wide range of potentially negative social influences while also having greater potential to reconnect with lost positive ties.
This project will develop a social network intervention to residents of SRHT in order to increase their knowledge about their social networks and enhance their motivation to make necessary changes to improve their ability to reduce or continue to abstain from high-risk behavior.
The intervention sessions will enhance the weekly support meetings that SRHT case workers already conduct with new residents during their first 6 months of residency.
Case workers will be trained to deliver the 30-minute intervention sessions using a motivational interviewing style.
The intervention will be developed so that case managers can deliver it with the aid of an electronic tablet device.
The tablet will guide them in collecting information about the residents' social networks and then display several diagrams highlighting various aspects of the residents' networks.
They will then use motivational interviewing techniques to guide residents to think about how their network currently functions, how they would like it to function, and what steps they can take to make changes necessary to achieve goals related to reducing their substance use and sexual risk behaviors.
The intervention will be delivered by case managers across four sessions (at baseline and at two-week intervals).
We anticipate that residents who participate in this intervention will develop new strategies in their interactions with their social networks that will facilitate a reduction in their high-risk behavior.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Actual)
50
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Locations
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California
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Los Angeles, California, United States, 90021
- Skid Row Housing Trust
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Santa Monica, California, United States, 90407
- RAND Corporation
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- New residents of Skid Row Housing Trust receiving permanent supportive housing
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age younger than 18
- Does not speak English
- Cognitively impaired either by identifying those having a diagnosis of dementia in the new resident intake interview or using the Short Blessed Scale Exam)
- Does not screen positive for past -year harmful AOD use using the AUDIT-C (a score > 4 for men and > 3 for women) and DAST (a score greater than 2).
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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No Intervention: Control Group: Usual Care
Residents of a housing first permanent supporting housing program will be randomly assigned to this arm after screening and baseline assessments.
They will meet with case managers according to the usual procedures for new residents and will be given a standard case manager interaction.
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Experimental: Motivational Network Interview Recipients
Residents of a housing first permanent supporting housing program will be randomly assigned to this arm after screening and baseline assessments.
They will meet roughly every two weeks with a case manager and answer questions about their social network, will be shown visual feedback about their networks, and will participate in a motivational interview conducted by the case managers.
The questions and visualizations will be facilitated by an electronic tool for presenting screens with questions, capturing responses, processing and visualizing social network data.
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Residents of a housing first permanent supporting housing program will be randomly assigned to this arm after screening and baseline assessments.
They will meet roughly every two weeks with a case manager and answer questions about their social network, will be shown visual feedback about their networks, and will participate in a motivational interview conducted by the case managers.
The questions and visualizations will be facilitated by an electronic tool for presenting screens with questions, capturing responses, processing and visualizing social network data.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Readiness to change alcohol and other drug use
Time Frame: Baseline and 13-14 weeks (post intervention)
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Measured with 12 item Readiness to Change Questionnaire (RTCQ) and a one item Contemplation Ladder
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Baseline and 13-14 weeks (post intervention)
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Readiness to change risky sexual behavior
Time Frame: Baseline and 13-14 weeks (post intervention)
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11 item Readiness to Change Risky Sexual Behavior (RTCQ-SB) scale a one item Contemplation Ladder
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Baseline and 13-14 weeks (post intervention)
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Self efficacy to change alcohol and other drug use
Time Frame: Baseline and 13-14 weeks (post intervention)
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Measured with two questionnaire items that assess the participant's importance and self-efficacy to stop alcohol and other drug use and 4 items from the Alcohol Abstinence Self-Efficacy Scale (AASE) which measure how confident participants feel in their ability to abstain from alcohol use when depressed, relaxed, craving substances, and offered alcohol.
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Baseline and 13-14 weeks (post intervention)
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Self efficacy to change risky sexual behavior
Time Frame: Baseline and 13-14 weeks (post intervention)
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Measured with 4 item Self-Efficacy to Use Condoms scale
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Baseline and 13-14 weeks (post intervention)
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Self-efficacy to change social networks
Time Frame: Baseline and 13-14 weeks (post intervention)
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Two item ladder scale item measuring importance and self-efficacy to change social networks.
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Baseline and 13-14 weeks (post intervention)
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Perceived Social Network support and approval/disapproval of alcohol, drug use, and risky sex.
Time Frame: Baseline and 13-14 weeks (after intervention)
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Measures of Perceived Social Support and ratings of network members on emotional closeness, drinking, drug use, safe-sex behavior, and approval/disapproval of high-risk behavior of social network members based on the Important People Drug and Alcohol Interview.
Raw network data to provide measures will result from a personal network interview in which participants will name 20 network member and answer questions about each of them and their relationships with each other.
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Baseline and 13-14 weeks (after intervention)
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Drug and Alcohol use
Time Frame: Baseline and 13-14 weeks (after intervention is completed)
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Assessed with a Timeline Followback calendar structured interview that measures alcohol and drug use through recall aided by a calendar.
Participants will be asked quantity and intensity of drinking and drug use to calculate a quantity-frequency index for both drinking and drug use.
Self-reports of non-use will be validated with a Oral Fluid Test.
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Baseline and 13-14 weeks (after intervention is completed)
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HIV risk behavior
Time Frame: baseline and 13-14 weeks (after intervention completion)
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Survey items asking if the participant engaged in unprotected sex and concurrent sexual relationships overall and with particular partners in the past 90 days.
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baseline and 13-14 weeks (after intervention completion)
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Change in social network composition and structure
Time Frame: baseline and 13-14 weeks (after intervention completion)
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Measures of network composition and structure will be constructed from raw network data.
Raw network data result from a personal network interview in which participants will name 20 network member and answer questions about each of them and their relationships with each other.
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baseline and 13-14 weeks (after intervention completion)
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Satisfaction with Intervention
Time Frame: 13-14 weeks (after intervention)
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Administration of the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ-8), an 8-item Likert-type measure of client feedback regarding services provided in a treatment program.
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13-14 weeks (after intervention)
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: David P Kennedy, PhD, RAND
Publications and helpful links
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General Publications
- Kennedy DP, Osilla KC, Hunter SB, Golinelli D, Maksabedian Hernandez E, Tucker JS. Restructuring personal networks with a Motivational Interviewing social network intervention to assist the transition out of homelessness: A randomized control pilot study. PLoS One. 2022 Jan 21;17(1):e0262210. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262210. eCollection 2022.
- Osilla KC, Kennedy DP, Hunter SB, Maksabedian E. Feasibility of a computer-assisted social network motivational interviewing intervention for substance use and HIV risk behaviors for housing first residents. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2016 Sep 7;11(1):14. doi: 10.1186/s13722-016-0061-x.
- Kennedy DP, Hunter SB, Chan Osilla K, Maksabedian E, Golinelli D, Tucker JS. A computer-assisted motivational social network intervention to reduce alcohol, drug and HIV risk behaviors among Housing First residents. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2016 Mar 15;11(1):4. doi: 10.1186/s13722-016-0052-y.
Study record dates
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Study Major Dates
Study Start
June 1, 2015
Primary Completion (Actual)
October 1, 2016
Study Completion (Actual)
July 1, 2017
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
May 14, 2014
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
May 15, 2014
First Posted (Estimate)
May 16, 2014
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
November 24, 2017
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
November 21, 2017
Last Verified
November 1, 2017
More Information
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Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- R34DA034855 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
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