Violence Brief Intervention Pilot v1.1

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Alcohol Consumption; Facial Injuries; Violence
• Interventions: Behavioral: ABI; Behavioral: Violence Brief Intervention

• Registration Number: NCT02394990
• Lead Sponsor: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Brief Summary

This study is a randomised controlled trial of a new brief intervention with young (16-29) adult male patients who have a facial injury sustained as a result of interpersonal violence (fighting or assaults). It will be undertaken at the Maxillofacial outpatient trauma clinic at the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow. The major risk factors associated with facial injury in Scotland are male gender, young age, interpersonal violence and alcohol. Previous research with facial injury patients attending this clinic has shown that an Alcohol Brief Intervention (ABI) is effective in helping reduce alcohol consumption, so all patients are now offered ABI as standard practice. ABI is delivered by trained nurses from Addiction Services. This will not be withdrawn. In addition we wish to offer some patients a Violence Brief Intervention (VBI). This will be delivered by the same nurses who deliver the ABI. The study is randomised so only those selected at random will receive this extra intervention and all others will receive treatment as normal (ABI only). VBI is a short psychological intervention which uses Brief Motivational Interviewing (BMI) to encourage reflection of involvement in violence and consideration of strategies to avoid future violence. The intervention also compares participants' attitudes towards violence to those of their peers. The intervention takes about 15 minutes, and patients will be involved for an additional 30-45 minutes longer than normal when they attend the clinic, including consent and baseline data collection. Patients will be followed up by telephone at 1, 3 and 6 months, and asked a suite of questions which will take approximately 15 minutes on each occasion. We wish to determine whether a VBI of this type has any effect on attitudes to violence or propensity for involvement in violence or on reinjury, examined through self report measures and routinely collected health and criminal justice data at 12 months post intervention.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2015-03
• Study Start: 2015-03
• Study First Submitted: 2015-03-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-03-19
• Study First Posted: 2015-03-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-03-30
• Last Update Posted: 2015-03-31
• Primary Completion: 2016-03
• Study Completion: 2016-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 300

Inclusion Criteria

• facial trauma patients
• Facial injury resulting from interpersonal violence (whether victim or perpetrator)
• Able to give informed consent
• Willing to commit to screening intervention and follow up programme lasting 6 months
• Within 28 days of injury
• Willing to provide either a contact telephone number or email address for the followup surveys
• Participants score ≥ 3/16 on the Fast Alcohol Screening Test (FAST)

Exclusion Criteria

• Unable to give informed e.g. adults with dementia, severe psychiatric problems, patients with learning difficulties who cannot consent for themselves
• Under 16 or over 29 years of age.
• Injury more than 28 days old
• Participants score ≤ 2/16 on the FAST measure

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control	ABI	Participants receive only ABI
Violence Brief Intervention	Violence Brief Intervention	Participants receive a standard of care brief motivational intervention (BMI) to address alcohol consumption (ABI) based on self reported use and their relationship between consumption and behavior, followed by an additional BMI to address how involvement in violence (VBI) impacts their life, relationship to social norms, and strategies to avoid violence.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Named in police crime report as perpetrator, victim or witness of violence	12 months post-intervention
Attitudes toward violence	1, 3 and 6 months post intervention
Re-admission for trauma injury	12 months post-intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Participant relationships to alcohol measured using the Fast Alcohol screening test	Baseline

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Southern General Hospital; 🇬🇧 Glasgow, United Kingdom