A Trial of Multisystemic Therapy in UK a Statutory Therapeutic Intervention for Young Offenders
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 108
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change in offending behavior based on police records of criminal offenses committed
研究概览
简要总结
To evaluate whether Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is more effective in reducing youth offending and out-of-home placement in a large, ethnically diverse, urban U.K. sample than an equally comprehensive management protocol; to determine whether MST leads to broader improvements in youth sociality and in mediators believed to be responsible for change in MST.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 13 Years 至 16 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •age between 13 and 16 years;
- •living in the home of and being brought up by a parent or principal caretaker;
- •on a court referral order for treatment or a supervision order of at least 3 months' duration, or, following imprisonment, on license in the community for at least 6 months.
排除标准
- •being a sex offender;
- •presented only with substance misuse;
- •diagnosed with a psychotic illness or posed a risk to trial personnel;
- •incompatible agency involvement (e.g., ongoing care proceedings).
结局指标
主要结局
Change in offending behavior based on police records of criminal offenses committed
时间窗: baseline and 6, 12, 18, 24, 30 and 36 months post randomization
The number of records of offending behavior (count data) was obtained, and 6-month periods free of any offending behavior were also recorded (binary data). Records were obtained from the National Young Offender Information System (YOIS) database. YOIS records detail offence information, court appearances, criminal orders, police custody records, and arrest rates.
次要结局
- self- and parent-rated symptoms of antisocial behavior, delinquency-linked cognitions, personality functioning, and parenting variables(baseline and 6 months after randomization)