A Therapeutic Workplace for Drug Abusers
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 40
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Percentage of urine samples at the assessments that were negative for cocaine
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to determine whether long-term exposure to the Therapeutic Workplace intervention could sustain drug abstinence over an extended period of time in heroin- and cocaine-dependent, unemployed, treatment-resistant young mothers.
详细描述
The current study is a continuation of the research into the development and evaluation of a novel treatment designed to address the chronic, persistent nature of drug addiction. This treatment, called the Therapeutic Workplace, integrates abstinence reinforcement contingencies of proven efficacy into a model supported work program. Participants were paid to work or to train in the Therapeutic Workplace but had to provide drug-free urine samples to gain daily access. Forty participants were randomly assigned to a Therapeutic Workplace or usual care control group. Therapeutic Workplace participants could work for about 5 years. This study reports the effects of the intervention over a follow-up period of 8 years after treatment initiation.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 50 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •When originally enrolled in the study, participants were at least 18 years old, unemployed, and methadone maintenance patients of the Center for Addiction and Pregnancy (CAP) who continued to use opiates or cocaine during CAP treatment.
排除标准
- •Participants were excluded if they were at risk for suicide at the time of intake or if they had serious psychiatric illness (e.g., schizophrenia).
结局指标
主要结局
Percentage of urine samples at the assessments that were negative for cocaine
时间窗: every 30 days throughout fourth year
(total number of monthly urine samples negative for cocaine/total number of possible urine samples) x 100
Percentage of urine samples at the assessments that were negative for opiates
时间窗: every 30 days throughout fourth year
(total number of monthly urine samples negative for opiates/total number of possible urine samples) x 100
Percentage of urine samples at the assessments that were negative for cocaine and opiates
时间窗: every 30 days throughout fourth year
(total number of monthly urine samples negative for cocaine and opiates/total number of possible urine samples) x 100
次要结局
- Number of days employed each month(every 30 days throughout fourth year)
- Percentage of participants employed each month(every 30 days throughout fourth year)
- HIV risk behaviors(every 30 days throughout fourth year)
- Percentage of participants to self-report abstinence at all time points(every 30 days throughout fourth year)