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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Addiction
• Interventions: Behavioral: Positive Peer Journaling (PPJ)

• Registration Number: NCT03903159
• Lead Sponsor: University of Minnesota

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

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Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2019-01-18
• Study Start: 2019-01-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-04-02
• Study First Posted: 2019-04-04
• Primary Completion: 2019-09-30
• Study Completion: 2019-09-30
• Status Verified: 2021-08
• Results First Submitted: 2021-08-02
• Results First Submitted QC: 2021-08-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-08-02
• Results First Posted: 2021-08-26
• Last Update Posted: 2021-08-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 15

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).

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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.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Treatment Group	Positive Peer Journaling (PPJ)	Positive Peer Journaling (PPJ)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of PPJ Journal Entries Made	8 weeks	Total count of the number of PPJ journal entries made over the course of the study
Treatment Retention	8 weeks	Percentage of participants who were retained in treatment at the host facility until the end of the study or who left the residential treatment facility on good terms during the course of the study.
Percentage of Group Sessions Attended	8 weeks	Percentage of group sessions will be calculated by taking the number of group sessions attended divided by total number of group sessions offered. Outcome is reported as the overall percentage of group attendance for all 15 participants combined.
Substance Use	8 weeks	Evidence that the individual used drugs or alcohol during the intervention period. This will be assessed via positive drug screen (urine test or breathalizer) or participant self-report of substance use. Reported as the number of participants who use illicit substances during the study.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Wayside Women's Treatment Center; 🇺🇸 Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, United States