Art as Healing: A Community-informed Art-based Programme (CiAbP) for Reintegrating Ex-offenders Into Society in Nigeria

Not Applicable

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Anxiety and Fear; Trauma; Depression
• Interventions: Other: Government Media Intervention; Behavioral: Community-informed art-based programme

• Registration Number: NCT05614687
• Lead Sponsor: Teesside University

Brief Summary

The goal of this pilot experimental study is to test a community-informed art-based programme in improving community members trauma from crime and to aid the reintegration of ex-offenders into society.

The main question it aims to answer are:

• What is the feasibility in terms of recruitment, retention, adherence to the intervention and communities/victims' satisfaction with CiAbP to promote healing and improve the successful reintegration of ex-offenders into society?

Participants will be randomly allocated into two groups. The first group, the intervention group, will receive the Community-informed Art-based programme (CiAbP). The second group will receive government intervention involving media messages from the National Orientation Agency devoid of CiAbP. The CiAbP. sessions will cover relevant aspects of art, such as photo story, story telling, poetry, and drawing in tackling trauma and negative attitudes towards ex-offenders reintegration.

Researchers will compare CiAbP group with the media orientation group to see if there are differences between a change in attitude towards ex-offenders' reintegration at base line, end of intervention and three months follow up.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2022-11
• Study First Submitted: 2022-11-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-11-05
• Study First Posted: 2022-11-14
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-11-19
• Last Update Posted: 2022-11-23
• Study Start: 2023-09-01
• Primary Completion: 2024-12-31
• Study Completion: 2026-08-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• Community members with previous experience of trauma
• Aged 18+ years and are residents in areas including Lagos/Delta states and its environs.
• Able to give informed consent,
• Speak the English language,
• Able to partake in baseline, pre-, post- and three-month follow-up data collection.

Exclusion Criteria

• The exclusion criteria are those not meeting the study's inclusion criteria.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Government intervention involving media messages	Government Media Intervention	It will involve media messages from the National Orientation Agency devoid of CiAbP and other media sources on materials such as health and public awareness.
Community-informed art-based programme (CiAbP)	Community-informed art-based programme	The CiAbP sessions will cover relevant aspects of art, such as poetry, spoken words, painting, drawing, literature, and music, in tackling trauma and negative attitudes towards ex-offenders reintegration.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Belief in Redeemability Scale v2	Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention	Change in of attitude towards ex-offenders' reintegration is being assessed
Service Satisfaction Scale	Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention	Change in service satisfaction is being assessed
Trauma Screening Questionnaire	Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention	Change in traumatic experience is being assessed; Change in traumatic experience is being assessed Change in traumatic experience is being assessed