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Automated Telephone Follow-up in the Swedish Prison and Probation Services

Primary Purpose

Affect, Alcohol Consumption, Substance Abuse

Status

Completed

Phase

Not Applicable

Locations

Sweden

Study Type

Interventional

Intervention

Brief feedback

Daily assessments

About this trial

This is an interventional prevention trial for Affect focused on measuring Paroled offenders, Interactive Voice Response, Stress, Mental symptoms, Alcohol consumption, Substance use

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria:

Convicted criminals subject to parole
Access to a mobile telephone
Assigned parole officer at parole

Exclusion Criteria:

No knowledge of spoken Swedish
Additional intervention such as intensive supervision with electronic monitoring, or in-patient care at a health and rehabilitation clinic

Sites / Locations

The Swedish Prison and Probation Services, Region South and Region East

Arms of the Study

Arm 1

Arm 2

Arm Type

Experimental

Active Comparator

Arm Label

Daily Assessments & Brief Feedback

Daily assessments

Arm Description

Daily assessments during 30 days after parole and a feedback intervention based on these daily assessments.

Daily assessments during 30 days after parole.

Outcomes

Primary Outcome Measures

Mental symptoms, SCL-8D

Mental Symptoms, assessed with SCL-8D (Fink et al. A Nordic multicentre investigation. Part I: Method and prevalence of psychiatric morbidity. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 1995;92(6):409-418).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Stress

Stress assessed with the Arnetz and hasson stress questionnaire(Andersson C et al. Measurement properties of the Arnetz and Hasson stress questionnaire in Swedish university freshmen. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 2009;37(3):273-279)

Stress

Daily Assessment of Daily Experience (Stone AA, Neale JM. Development of a methodology for assessing daily experiences. In: Baum A, Singer J, eds. Advances in Environmental Psychology: Environment and Health. Vol 4. New York: Erlbaum; 1982:49-83).

Desire to use alcohol and drugs

Desire to use alcohol and drugs (Bohn MJ, Krahn DD, Staehler BA. Development and initial validation of a measure of drinking urges in abstinent alcoholics. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 1995;19(3):600-606).

Current use of alcohol and drugs

Current use was then assessed by simply asking whether the offender had drunk alcohol or used any drugs the previous day.

Full Information

NCT ID

NCT01727882

First Posted

November 4, 2012

Last Updated

November 12, 2012

Sponsor

Region Skane

Collaborators

Lund University, Malmö University

1. Study Identification

Unique Protocol Identification Number

NCT01727882

Brief Title

Automated Telephone Follow-up in the Swedish Prison and Probation Services

Official Title

Automated Telephone Follow-up in the Swedish Prison and Probation Services. A Randomized Controlled Trail.

Study Type

Interventional

2. Study Status

Record Verification Date

November 2012

Overall Recruitment Status

Completed

Study Start Date

December 2009 (undefined)

Primary Completion Date

September 2010 (Actual)

Study Completion Date

September 2010 (Actual)

3. Sponsor/Collaborators

Responsible Party, by Official Title

Principal Investigator

Name of the Sponsor

Region Skane

Collaborators

Lund University, Malmö University

4. Oversight

Data Monitoring Committee

5. Study Description

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether automated telephony may be used for daily assessments of paroled offenders, and whether a brief intervention based on these daily assessments may result in a more positive development compared to daily assessments only.

Detailed Description

To study whether automated telephony could be used in paroled offenders to perform daily assessment of variables associated with recidivism in crime and to study the effects of a brief intervention based on these assessments during 30 days following probation.

6. Conditions and Keywords

Primary Disease or Condition Being Studied in the Trial, or the Focus of the Study

Affect, Alcohol Consumption, Substance Abuse

Keywords

Paroled offenders, Interactive Voice Response, Stress, Mental symptoms, Alcohol consumption, Substance use

7. Study Design

Primary Purpose

Prevention

Study Phase

Not Applicable

Interventional Study Model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open Label)

Allocation

Randomized

Enrollment

108 (Actual)

8. Arms, Groups, and Interventions

Arm Title

Daily Assessments & Brief Feedback

Arm Type

Experimental

Arm Description

Daily assessments during 30 days after parole and a feedback intervention based on these daily assessments.

Arm Title

Daily assessments

Arm Type

Active Comparator

Arm Description

Daily assessments during 30 days after parole.

Intervention Type

Behavioral

Intervention Name(s)

Brief feedback

Intervention Description

A brief feedback was given on the results of the daily assessments, including a recommendation to the paroled offender and a email report was sent to the probation officer.

Intervention Type

Behavioral

Intervention Name(s)

Daily assessments

Intervention Description

Daily assessment of stress, mental symptoms, alcohol and substance use during 30 consecutive days after parole.

Primary Outcome Measure Information:

Title

Mental symptoms, SCL-8D

Description

Mental Symptoms, assessed with SCL-8D (Fink et al. A Nordic multicentre investigation. Part I: Method and prevalence of psychiatric morbidity. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 1995;92(6):409-418).

Time Frame