Art as Healing: A Community-informed Art-based Programme (CiAbP) for Reintegrating Ex-offenders Into Society in Nigeria

Teesside University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Anxiety and Fear; Trauma; Depression

Treatments: Other: Government Media Intervention; Behavioral: Community-informed art-based programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05614687

0000-0003-0516-0313b

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this pilot experimental study is to test a community-informed art-based programme in improving community members trauma from crime and to aid the reintegration of ex-offenders into society.

The main question it aims to answer are:

• What is the feasibility in terms of recruitment, retention, adherence to the intervention and communities/victims' satisfaction with CiAbP to promote healing and improve the successful reintegration of ex-offenders into society?

Participants will be randomly allocated into two groups. The first group, the intervention group, will receive the Community-informed Art-based programme (CiAbP). The second group will receive government intervention involving media messages from the National Orientation Agency devoid of CiAbP. The CiAbP. sessions will cover relevant aspects of art, such as photo story, story telling, poetry, and drawing in tackling trauma and negative attitudes towards ex-offenders reintegration.

Researchers will compare CiAbP group with the media orientation group to see if there are differences between a change in attitude towards ex-offenders' reintegration at base line, end of intervention and three months follow up.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Community members with previous experience of trauma
• Aged 18+ years and are residents in areas including Lagos/Delta states and its environs.
• Able to give informed consent,
• Speak the English language,
• Able to partake in baseline, pre-, post- and three-month follow-up data collection.

Exclusion criteria

• The exclusion criteria are those not meeting the study's inclusion criteria.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Community-informed art-based programme (CiAbP)

Experimental group

Description:

The CiAbP sessions will cover relevant aspects of art, such as poetry, spoken words, painting, drawing, literature, and music, in tackling trauma and negative attitudes towards ex-offenders reintegration.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Community-informed art-based programme

Government intervention involving media messages

Active Comparator group

Description:

It will involve media messages from the National Orientation Agency devoid of CiAbP and other media sources on materials such as health and public awareness.

Treatment:

Other: Government Media Intervention