Community Wise: An Innovative Multi-level Intervention to Reduce Alcohol and Illegal Drug Use

Summary

The current project seeks to implement the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) and Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) principles to identify the most efficient, scalable, and sustainable combination of Community Wise components. Community Wise is a manualized multi-level intervention aimed at reducing health inequalities related to alcohol and illicit drug use (AIDU).This 2x2x2x2 factorial design will be fully powered to detect change in AIDU in a sample of 528 men with substance use disorders and a history of incarceration residing in distressed communities with predominantly Black populations. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of sixteen experimental conditions.

Conditions

• Substance Use Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Critical Dialogue

Prompted by thematic images, aims to help participants develop a deeper understanding of how marginalizing processes (e.g., systematic stigma; feelings of rage as victims of discrimination) impact participants' lives and behavior.

BEHAVIORAL

Capacity Building Project

Designed to create collaborative efforts to overcome and dismantle marginalizing processes by building positive social and organizational relationships and community capacity through the development and implementation of community projects aiming to address social determinants of health.

BEHAVIORAL

Quality of Life Wheel

Aims to increase self-efficacy and help participants develop a vision for their future, breaking this vision down into small, feasible, measureable goals they can implement on a weekly basis (e.g. quitting smoking, improving relationships with family members, paying down debt).

BEHAVIORAL

PF

Whether the intervention is delivered by a peer facilitator.

BEHAVIORAL

LC

Whether the intervention is delivered by a licensed clinician.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Michigan

  collaborator OTHER

• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

  collaborator NIH

• North Jersey Community Research Initiative

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Liliane Windsor, PhD · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

MALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-01-17

Primary Completion

2020-01-20

Completion

2020-01-20

Countries

• United States

Study Locations