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- Clinical Trial NCT04256954
Peer Navigation for Individuals With Serious Mental Illness Leaving Jail
July 14, 2023 updated by: Maji Debena, Michigan State University
Serious mental illness (SMI) is a burdensome and widely prevalent public health problem among incarcerated men and women.
Incarcerated individuals with SMI re-entering the community after jail stay experience the double stigma of criminal justice involvement and having the diagnosis of SMI.
As a result, they are likely to disengage with community level mental health, medical care and substance use services at re-entry.
This study proposes the development and pilot test of peer navigator intervention to increase linkages to community level mental health, medical care and substance use services.
Study Overview
Status
Recruiting
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Serious Mental Illness (SMI) is a stigmatized and disabling health condition that reduces average life expectancy by 25 years.
SMI is also a prevalent public health problem affecting 25% of jail populations.
Re-entry to the community following incarceration is a vulnerable time for justice-involved individuals with SMI, and SMI requires prompt and ongoing access to mental health and other healthcare services.
Individuals with SMI who are re-entering the community following jail experience multiple barriers to access to community mental health, medical care (preventive and curative) and social services due to their debilitating symptoms, practical challenges accessing community services, and the stigma associated with being diagnosed with SMI.
Peer navigation has been found to improve access to the mental health and medical care among individuals with SMI in the community.
However, no peer support interventions for SMI have been tested to assist with mental health service linkage during re-entry to the community after incarceration.
This study will develop and pilot test a peer navigator intervention for individuals with SMI re-entering the community after jail stay, providing formative work for a larger randomized controlled clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of peer navigator intervention for justice-involved individuals with SMI.
The intervention is based on social support theory.
The project will: (a) develop a peer navigation intervention and evaluate its feasibility, acceptability, and potential engagement of target mechanisms for enrollment in mental health, medical care and substance use services among individuals with SMI re-entering the community after jail release and (b) conduct a randomized pilot trial in a sample of 40 individuals with SMI re-entering the community after jail release.
Proposed target mechanisms include increased instrumental, informational, and emotional support for treatment engagement and recovery, as well as increased perception of social norms promoting treatment engagement and recovery.
The control condition will be Standard Of Care (SOC).
In addition to feasibility and acceptability, other outcomes include: (1) health service outcomes (primary) including enrollment/engagement/utilization of community mental health (primary), medical care and substance use services; and shorter days between release and first contact with healthcare provider; (2) Clinical outcomes: reduced psychiatric symptoms, increased functioning, adherence to psychiatric medications, fewer substance using days, fewer hospitalizations and suicide attempts; (3) Life context outcomes: nights unstably housed, and time until rearrest and (4) Potential target mechanisms that include instrumental, informational, and emotional support for treatment engagement and social norms about treatment engagement and recovery.
Addressing the needs of re-entering individuals with SMI is a pressing priority for both the mental health and criminal justice systems.
Peer navigators could play a critical role in continuing recovery and successful reintegration, reducing the impact of criminal justice involvement and mental health challenges.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Estimated)
40
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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Michigan
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Flint, Michigan, United States, 48502
- Recruiting
- Genesee County Jail
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Contact:
- Capt. Jill Macey
- Phone Number: 810-257-3439
- Email: JMacey@geneseecountymi.gov
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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
No
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Incarcerated in the Genesee County Jail,
- Aged 18 or above,
- Has a lifetime DSM-5 diagnosis of SMI (including primary psychotic disorder [schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or delusional disorder], bipolar disorder, and/or a major depressive disorder with psychotic features) as assessed by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 (SCID-5) and
- Anticipating release in the following two months.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Expect to be sentenced to prison (i.e., expect to go directly to prison, not home, from the jail),
- Cannot provide the name and contact information of at least two locator persons and/or
- Do not have access to any telephone.
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: Health Services Research
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Peer navigation
Those who are assigned to the intervention arm will receive peer navigation service by a trained peer navigator who will link them with mental health, medical and substance use services in the community.
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A peer navigator will assist those assigned to the intervention group access community mental health, medical care and substance use services.
Peer navigators will help create linkages to services
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No Intervention: Standard of Care
SOC consists of TAU + monitoring and emergency referral, as is required to fulfil ethical obligations to trial participants.
To determine the naturalistic effects and costs of adding peer navigation intervention, participants in both conditions can receive any other treatment available to them and we will not exclude participants receiving other treatment.
We will carefully characterize TAU for each condition as part of our service utilization assessment.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Feasibility: Client Satisfaction
Time Frame: 6 months after release
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Client Satisfaction Questionnaire- 8: scores range from 8-32, higher scores indicating higher satisfaction
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6 months after release
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Feasibility: End of treatment
Time Frame: 6 months after release
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End of Treatment Questionnaire: this is a descriptive measure, positive experiences described meaning higher feasibility of the service
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6 months after release
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Acceptability: Client Satisfaction Questionnaire
Time Frame: 6 months after release
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Client Satisfaction Questionnaire- 8: scores range from 8-32, higher scores indicating higher satisfaction
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6 months after release
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Acceptability: End of treatment
Time Frame: 6 months after release
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End of Treatment Questionnaire this is a descriptive measure, positive experiences described meaning better acceptability of the treatment
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6 months after release
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Service linkage outcomes
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Number of visits to outpatient as assessed by Treatment History Interview
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Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Service linkage outcomes
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Number of visits to emergency department as assessed by Treatment History Interview (THI)
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Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Clinical outcomes
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Presence of psychiatric symptoms as assessed by Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale; sum of items 1-5, with a cut off score of 6 or higher indicating presence of manic or hypomanic condition.
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Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Clinical outcomes
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Severity of psychiatric symptoms as assessed by Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale; scores range from 0-20, with a cut off score of 6 or higher indicating severity of psychiatric symptoms.
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Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Clinical outcomes
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Depressive symptoms as assessed by Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptoms; 16 questions, scores range from 0-27, higher scores indicating severity of depressive symptoms.
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Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Clinical outcomes
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Adherence to psychotropic medications as assessed by Brief Adherence Rating Scale; more days missed indicating poor adherence.
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Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Clinical outcomes
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Functioning as assessed by the 12-item WHO-Disability Assessment Schedule; scores range from 0-48, higher scores indicating greater functional impairment.
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Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Clinical outcomes
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Number of hospitalizations as assessed by Treatment History Interview
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Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Clinical outcomes
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Number of suicide attempts as assessed by Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale; scores range from 2-25, higher number indicating more intense suicidal ideation.
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Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Clinical outcomes
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Substance use (alcohol) as assessed by the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test
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Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Clinical outcomes
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Substance use (drugs) as assessed and Drug Use Disorders Identification Test
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Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Target mechanisms
Time Frame: baseline, three months and six months.
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Self Stigma of Mental Illness Short Form
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baseline, three months and six months.
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Life context outcomes
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Number of nights unstably housed as measured by using calendar-based interview.
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Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Life context outcomes
Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Days until rearrest as measured by using calendar-based interview.
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Baseline, 3 months and 6 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Sponsor
Collaborators
Study record dates
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Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
November 2, 2022
Primary Completion (Estimated)
January 1, 2024
Study Completion (Estimated)
April 1, 2024
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
January 6, 2020
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
February 4, 2020
First Posted (Actual)
February 5, 2020
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
July 18, 2023
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
July 14, 2023
Last Verified
July 1, 2023
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- STUDY00002543
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
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