Effects of Manualized Treatment in a Seamless System (Man Tx)

George Mason University (GMU)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Criminal Thinking; Offenders; HIV Risk Behaviors; Substance Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01372033

R01DA017729 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The specific aims of this project are:

1. To conduct a randomized block experiment to test the effectiveness of different models of the seamless supervision/treatment system and traditional criminal justice supervision on reducing recidivism and drug use, and improving social adjustment among offenders;
2. To understand the differential impacts based on offender risk factors (e.g., propensity to engage in further criminal behavior) on criminal justice outcomes and to determine whether differences found between seamless and traditional system participants are moderated by offender risk level;
3. To understand differential treatment and social adjustment outcomes (e.g., treatment progress, employment status) of different types of offenders participating in various treatment services; and
4. To examine levels of systems and service integration between the supervision and treatment systems pre- and post-intervention and to measure the impact of integration on outcomes over time.

Enrollment: 251 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Substance abusers

  • men and women
  • treatment

Exclusion criteria

• Parolees

  • Low threshold substance abuse
  • violent offenders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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251 participants in 1 patient group

CBT

Experimental group

Description:

Use of cognitive behavioral therapy focused on social skill development and interpersonal relationships

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy