A randomised controlled trial of an early group intervention to engage alcohol and other substance misusing short-term prisoners in appropriate health service use

Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board (UK)0 sites238 target enrollmentJanuary 21, 2014

Overview

2020 Results article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32045077 results (added 12/02/2020)

Registry

who.int

Start Date

January 21, 2014

End Date

March 31, 2017

Last Updated

3 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

Male

Sponsor

Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board (UK)

•1\. Men 18 years old or older
•2\. New receptions into one prison who are likely to remain there for more than four weeks but less than six months, regardless of pre\-trial or conviction status (in previous research we have devised a system for correctly predicting the lower figure with 64% accuracy)
•3\. Experiencing withdrawal symptoms from alcohol and/or illicit drugs on/soon after arrival
•4\. Scoring 16\+ on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) (Saunders JB, Aasland OG, Babor TF and De la Fuente JR. \[1993]. Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification test \[AUDIT]. WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption. Addiction 88 \[6]: 791\)
•5\. Scoring 15\+ on the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) (Skinner HA. \[1982]. The Drug Abuse Screening Test. Addictive Behaviours 7\[4]:363\-71\)

•1\. Being under a sentence of more than 12 months in prison
•2\. Not meeting the criteria for problem drinking and/or drug use, as above
•3\. Not having sufficient English language fluency to participate in the groups (we do not have sufficient resources to be able to run the groups in languages other than English)