Developing Violence Prevention Therapy for Substance Abusers

University of Michigan

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2; Phase 1

Conditions: Substance Use Disorders; Violence

Treatments: Behavioral: IVPT

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00551863

R01DA017295-01A1

R01DA017295 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this project is to develop and pilot test a violence prevention intervention for men and women in treatment for substance use problems.

Enrollment: 131 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Presence of substance use related problems
• Interpersonal Violence history in the year before recruitment

Exclusion criteria

• Primary opiate dependence
• Presence of active psychotic disorder
• < 18 years of age

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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131 participants in 1 patient group

IVPT

Active Comparator group

Description:

Intervention based on Motivational Interviewing and CBT

Treatment:

Behavioral: IVPT