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Colorado Women's TC Project

NCT00249561 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1/PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 610

Last updated 2011-07-20

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Summary

The major aim of the project is to document and evaluate two treatments for female offenders with substance abuse problems (TC and cognitive behavioral), simultaneously studying the process of treatment, and relating treatment process to treatment outcome.

Conditions

  • Substance-Related Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Recovery by Choice

The experimental condition, the modified TC, was a 6- to 9-month program located in a separate 72-bed housing unit within the prison. Inmates progressed through four program stages with upper level inmates functioning as peer mentors for newer members. The modified, comprehensive TC treatment program focused on increasing awareness and understanding of female roles and relationships as they relate to addiction and drugs used and abused, and emotional and behavioral coping skills. Program elements addressed issues of substance abuse, relapse prevention, mental health, criminal thinking and behavior, coping with trauma and abuse, and parenting skills. All treatment staff received special training related to working with women exposed to trauma and abuse, making the program "trauma informed" and "trauma sensitive."

BEHAVIORAL

The Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

The control condition, known at the prison as the Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), was designed to address substance abuse and criminality, with a focus on prevention of relapse and recidivism. The IOP substance abuse treatment curriculum, designed for delivery over 15 weeks, consisted of a 90-hour manual-driven course (Strategies for Self-Improvement and Change, Wanburg \& Milkman, 1998), which employed a cognitive behavioral format to address underlying issues of substance use/abuse and criminal behavior.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • JoAnn Y Sacks, Ph.D. · National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2001-09-30
Primary Completion
2007-07-31
Completion
2007-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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