Core Competency Model for Corrections (CCM-C)

University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Other: Core Competency Model for Corrections (CCM-C) Self-Directed Violence Prevention Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06359574

IRB-24-0209

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall goal of this project is to design, implement, and revise the Core Competency Model for Corrections (CCM-C), an evidence-based Self-Directed Violence (SDV) prevention training program for correctional mental health providers in the North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections (DAC). The proposed specific aims are:

Aim 1: To create the CCM-C training program. Aim 2: To assess preliminary training effectiveness. Aim 3: To gather training program quality improvement feedback from corrections stakeholders.

Full description

Investigators will conduct a pilot feasibility and preliminary effectiveness evaluation of the Core Competency Model for Corrections (CCM-C; Cramer et al., 2022). This training approach involves psycho-educational content, self-assessment tools, interactive exercises to address 10 clinical care and practitioner-focused skill sets for suicide and self-injury risk assessment and management. The protocol employs a waitlist control sequential cross-over design and mixed-method evaluation approach targeting 50-100 NC correctional behavioral health clinicians (BHCs). Through an ongoing academic-community partnership, investigators will employ a Corrections Advisory Panel (CAP) to provide expert review of training. The CAP will comprise six NC-DAC BHCs and 4-6 external BHCs with experience in correctional behavioral health. Two training groups will each provide three assessments via an online self-report evaluation battery gathering information regarding participant demographics; SDV prevention knowledge, attitudes, and perceived skills; incarceration-related attitudes; and perceived importance of and intention to use SDV prevention practices.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Behavioral Health Clinician (BHC)
• 18 years of age or older
• Living in the U.S.
• Currently employed by the NC DAC

Exclusion criteria

• Decisional or cognitive impairments that preclude being able to consent to study participation
• Being a member of the study correctional advisory panel (CAP)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Core Competency Model for Corrections (CCM-C) Self-Directed Violence Prevention Training group 1

Experimental group

Description:

Receives CCM-C training two weeks after baseline assessment.

Treatment:

Other: Core Competency Model for Corrections (CCM-C) Self-Directed Violence Prevention Training

Core Competency Model for Corrections (CCM-C) Self-Directed Violence Prevention Training group 2

Experimental group

Description:

Receives CCM-C training two weeks after follow-up 1 assessment.

Treatment:

Other: Core Competency Model for Corrections (CCM-C) Self-Directed Violence Prevention Training