Evaluation of Changes in Consumption of Drugs and Substances After Incarceration (COSMOS)

To improve the management and risk reduction, it is essential to understand the evolution of the consumption of psychoactive substances, medicated or not in detention; it does not have at present no data on this subject. This work has as main objective to evaluate the development of substance use terms (goods and consumption practices) by the inmates between the period preceding their incarceration and their fifth month in detention.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Addictions

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 629

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Angers, France, 49000
    • Angers University Hospital
  • Fontenay Le Comte, France, 85200
    • Fontenay Le Comte Hospital
  • La Roche sur Yon, France, 85000
    • La Roche Sur Yon Hospital
  • Laval, France, 53000
    • Laval Hospital
  • Le Mans, France, 72000
    • Le Mans Hospital
  • Nantes, France, 44093
    • Nantes University Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

The eligible study population is incarcerated major subjects. The topics will be selected subjects incarcerated in remand centers participating in the study. All subjects were medical examination, Home Maintenance arriving at their entrance into custody. On this occasion, the medical staff will verify the absence of non inclusion criterion and the subject will be informed orally and via an information sheet that will retain an invitation to respond to an anonymous questionnaire will be sent after him 4 or 5 months of detention (as prisons). He may accept or reject this invitation.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Major subject
• Subject in the fourth or fifth month of incarceration
• Held about agreeing to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient refusing to participate
• Patient unable to respond to the questionnaire (major difficulties understanding of the French language)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
change in practices of consumption of psychoactive substances between the period prior to incarceration and detention period	composite endpoint representing the existence of a change in practices of consumption of psychoactive substances between the period prior to incarceration and detention period	Until 5 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Nantes University Hospital
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Caroline VICTORRI-VIGNEAU, Dr, Nantes University Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: January 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 1, 2015
• Study Completion (Actual): July 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 27, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 28, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): July 29, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): July 29, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 28, 2016
• Last Verified: July 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Compulsive Behavior; Impulsive Behavior; Behavior, Addictive
• Other Study ID Numbers: RC14_0259

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO