- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT03501732
Using Values to Enhance Inmates' Response to Substance Use and HIV Risk Feedback
A key component of effective offender treatment is an initial assessment of risk factors followed by feedback to facilitate problem awareness and engagement in appropriate treatment and/or behavior change. Feedback regarding areas of high risk, however, can be experienced as threatening.
The investigators propose to develop, fine-tune, and pilot-test a computerized system for risk assessment and feedback, including evaluation of a brief pre-feedback prosocial values affirmation exercise (Cohen & Sherman, 2014) aimed at decreasing defensiveness and increasing inmates' willingness to access and process risk-relevant information and to utilize post-release treatment resources, thereby reducing post-release substance misuse, HIV risk behavior, and criminal recidivism. Participants will be 170 jail inmates nearing release into the community - 20 pilot participants and 150 study participants randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) Values Affirmation + Personalized Risk Feedback; (2) Personalized Risk Feedback only; (3) Control. The baseline and risk assessment, values affirmation manipulation, and personalized risk feedback will be presented via touch-screen computers, requiring minimal training to administer. Analyses will assess:
- The feasibility of utilizing a computerized system to assess and share risk information with jail inmates, including a brief values affirmation exercise to reduce defensiveness;
- The acceptability of this approach from the perspectives of jail staff and inmates themselves;
- The impact of the intervention on observed proximal outcomes (mechanisms of action), such as time spent viewing feedback, electing to print a copy of informational and treatment resources, and consequent changes in perceptions of risk, treatability, etc.;
- The impact of the intervention on key post-release outcomes including engagement in relevant treatment services, substance misuse, HIV risk behaviors, re-offense and re-arrest;
- The links between proximal outcomes (MOAs) and key post-release outcomes;
- Potential moderators of treatment effectiveness.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Sufficient proficiency in spoken English to understand computer-assisted assessments and feedback
- post-sentencing with a sentence (i.e., less than 12 months) likely to be served out at the jail (vs. a state or federal prison) and likely to be released into the community. The invitation to participate will be timed so treatment is delivered toward the end of incarceration (within one week of release) to minimize decay of effects, and to capitalize on the motivational value of the up-coming release.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Those with detainers to other jurisdictions and to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Factorial Assignment
- Masking: Quadruple
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Values Affirmation plus Risk Feedback
Values Affirmation with Risk Feedback in substance use and HIV domains of risk
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Experimental Group selects two values and describes why they are important
Experimental and comparator conditions both receive normative feedback in domains of risk
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Active Comparator: Risk Feedback
Sham Values Affirmation with Risk Feedback in substance use and HIV domains of risk
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Experimental and comparator conditions both receive normative feedback in domains of risk
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No Intervention: Sleep Control
Description of sleep habits in lieu of values affirmation/sham values affirmation.
No risk feedback
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Changes in substance use
Time Frame: 3 months post-release (Time 2)
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Changes in substance use -- among those who were identified at risk and who thus received feedback, pre-post incarceration changes in terms of pre-incarceration standard deviations.
If more than one domain of feedback, average standard deviation change.
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3 months post-release (Time 2)
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Changes in HIV risk behavior
Time Frame: 3 months post-release (Time 2)
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Changes in HIV risk behavior -- among those who were identified at risk and who thus received feedback, pre-post incarceration changes in terms of pre-incarceration standard deviations.
If more than one domain of feedback (risky sex, risky needle use), average standard deviation change.
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3 months post-release (Time 2)
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
---|---|---|
Changes in accuracy of perceptions of normative risk behavior
Time Frame: Immediately following intervention (Time 1)
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Changes in accuracy of perceptions of normative behavior (pre-post intervention changes in terms of pre-intervention standard deviations) in areas of risk/feedback
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Immediately following intervention (Time 1)
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Requests Community Resources
Time Frame: Immediately following intervention (Time 1)
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Choose to print a copy of community resources in domain(s) of risk
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Immediately following intervention (Time 1)
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Makes Use of Community Resources
Time Frame: 3 months post-release (Time 2)
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Makes use of relevant community services during 3 months post-release
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3 months post-release (Time 2)
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: June P Tangney, PhD, George Mason University
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Anticipated)
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
Study Completion (Anticipated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- R34DA042974-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
IPD Sharing Time Frame
IPD Sharing Access Criteria
IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type
- STUDY_PROTOCOL
- SAP
- ICF
- ANALYTIC_CODE
- CSR
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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