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Effects of Motivational Interviewing in Prison

NCT01184612 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 296

Last updated 2010-08-19

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Summary

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a communication style demonstrated to decrease drug and alcohol use. A five session MI intervention (BSF) was implemented in the Swedish correctional system. The intervention was delivered by counsellors with workshop only MI training (BSF) or by counsellors with workshop MI training followed by peer group supervision based on audio taped feedback (BSF+).

Aim was to examine whether BSF in prisons reduces drug and alcohol use more effectively than interviews conducted according to the usual planning interview routine (UPI).

Conditions

  • Alcohol Abuse

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Motivational Interviewing; MI

MI is a communication style defined as a collaborative, person-centred form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation to change. The method is based on four principles: showing empathy; developing discrepancy between the subject's current behaviour and an alternate, more desired, behaviour; reinforcing self-efficacy; and "rolling" with resistance to change. Client arguments for change are elicited and reinforced in an atmosphere that is empathic, collaborative and supportive of autonomy. The choice to change and the responsibility for change remain with the client.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • the research committee of the National Prison and Probation Administration

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Karolinska Institutet

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lars G Forsberg, Ph D · Karolinska Institutet

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-04-30
Primary Completion
2007-03-31
Completion
2008-07-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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