An interventional study of Values Affirmation and Risk Feedback in Substance Use and HIV Risk Behavior, sponsored by George Mason University. Status unknown. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-08-08.
Sponsored by George Mason University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
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:
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Values Affirmation with Risk Feedback in substance use and HIV domains of risk
Behavioral: Values Affirmation · Behavioral: Risk Feedback
Sham Values Affirmation with Risk Feedback in substance use and HIV domains of risk
Behavioral: Risk Feedback
Description of sleep habits in lieu of values affirmation/sham values affirmation. No risk feedback
Experimental Group selects two values and describes why they are important
Experimental and comparator conditions both receive normative feedback in domains of risk
Changes in substance use
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.
Time frame: 3 months post-release (Time 2)
Changes in HIV risk behavior
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.
Time frame: 3 months post-release (Time 2)
Changes in accuracy of perceptions of normative risk behavior
Changes in accuracy of perceptions of normative behavior (pre-post intervention changes in terms of pre-intervention standard deviations) in areas of risk/feedback
Time frame: Immediately following intervention (Time 1)
Requests Community Resources
Choose to print a copy of community resources in domain(s) of risk
Time frame: Immediately following intervention (Time 1)
Makes Use of Community Resources
Makes use of relevant community services during 3 months post-release
Time frame: 3 months post-release (Time 2)
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Plan to share: Yes — We will make the data and associated documentation available to researchers under a data-sharing agreement that provides for: (1) release of individually prepared datasets containing the subset of variables required to answer the requester's research question(s); (2) a commitment to using the data only for research purposes and not to attempt to identify any individual participant; (3) a commitment to securing the data using appropriate computer technology housed in a secure laboratory facility; and (4) a commitment to destroying or returning the data after analyses are completed. Because of the exceptionally sensitive nature of the data, detailed criminal history and re-arrest information and self-reports of undetected criminal behavior will not be shared. Data requests will be accepted beginning 12 months after publication of the primary findings of the proposed project.
Supporting information: Study protocol, Sap, Icf, Csr, Analytic code
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