Brief Intervention for Justice-Involved Substance Users

Brief Intervention for Justice-Involved Substance Users: Moderators and Mechanisms of Change

This is a randomized clinical trial to study ways of helping justice-involved people change to more healthy behavior.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Substance Use; Violence
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: BMI; Behavioral: Stadard Care (SC)

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 133
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New York
    • Rochester, New York, United States, 14642
      • University of Rochester Medical Center
    • Rochester, New York, United States, 14642
      • Pretrial Services, Inc.

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• In Monroe County Pretrial Services Program

Exclusion Criteria:

• none

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Triple

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Brief Motivational Intervention (BMI)	Behavioral: BMI; Four 45-minute, brief motivational sessions for substance use; Behavioral: Stadard Care (SC); Standard procedures at pretrial program + assessement
Active Comparator: Standard Care (SC)	Behavioral: Stadard Care (SC); Standard procedures at pretrial program + assessement

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Percent Days Abstinent	Percent Days not using alcohol or drugs	6 months
Substance Use Consequences	Short Inventory of Problems with Alcohol or Drugs (SIP-AD) will be used to determine extent of drug use consequences. 15 items (0-15) - higher = more problems	6 months
Violent Charges	Number of violent charges during follow-up from Statewide Database	2 years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Rochester
• Collaborators: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 1, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 1, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): August 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 9, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 9, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): October 13, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 8, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 7, 2023
• Last Verified: September 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Chemically-Induced Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: RSRB69167

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

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

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No