Piloting "Positive Peer Journaling" a Journaling Practice to Support Recovery From Addiction (PPJ)

University of Minnesota (UMN)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Addiction

Treatments

Behavioral: Positive Peer Journaling (PPJ)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03903159

STUDY00004619

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objective of this study is development of the Positive Peer Journaling (PPJ) intervention and the feasibility, acceptability, and logistics of treatment delivery. A second objective is to observe whether PPJ is associated with improvement in hypothesized outcomes. The primary outcomes the investigators will examine are enhanced treatment retention and reduced recurrence of substance use. The investigators will also explore the association between the intervention and a set of hypothesized mediators of the effect of the intervention on outcomes, e.g., improvement in mood and satisfaction with recovery.

Enrollment

15 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

minimum 18 years of age,
meet DSM-V criteria for past-year SUD as primary or secondary diagnosis,
English literacy sufficient to make short written lists needed to complete PPJ and homework assessments,
minimum 2 weeks sustained abstinence,
completed first 2 weeks of treatment at Wayside (approximately 2 weeks), a residential substance use disorder treatment program and the recruitment site,
priority will go to participants who are from or moving back to a rural area or small town defined as a population less than 10,500,
agree to be audio recorded in group meetings and in individual meetings with research staff,
currently are clients in the Wayside residential program,
participants must be English speaking and literacy must be strong enough to write short lists and to understand the questions asked in the questionnaires.
Priority will go to women who will be residing at Wayside for the duration of the study activities (and not moving out after one week, for example).

Exclusion criteria

presence of a psychotic disorder, psychiatric condition (e.g., suicidal ideation), or cognitive impairment (e.g., severe dementia, traumatic brain injury) limiting ability to give consent and/or participate in the study;
severe psychiatric illness (current schizophrenia, major depression with suicidal ideation);
personality disorders that would interfere with satisfactory participation in or completion of the study protocol,
inability to give informed, voluntary consent to participate,
lack of sufficient English literacy to participate, defined as inability to make a list of 5 things they did yesterday and inability to understand questionnaire items,
any impairment, activity, or situation that in the judgement of the research staff would prevent satisfactory participation in or completion of the study protocol.