Effects of Individual Intervention for Men in Focused Deterrence Program

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Violence

Treatments: Behavioral: Individual intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03184116

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Details and patient eligibility

About

This project will implement and evaluate a community-based intervention to improve individual outcomes in violence-related injuries and homicide. Young African American men participating in a focused deterrence program (the Birmingham Violence Reduction Initiative, BVRI) will be randomized to receive an additional individual intervention based on the cognitive-behavioral Reasoning and Rehabilitation program.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• African American male identified as at high risk for violence by the Birmingham Violence Reduction Initiative

Exclusion criteria

• Mental retardation, serious mental illness (eg, psychosis)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Individual intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Individual intervention using cognitive-behavioral principles

Treatment:

Behavioral: Individual intervention

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No additional intervention