Trial reportAddictive behaviors2015
The relationship between electronic goal reminders and subsequent drug use and treatment initiation in a criminal justice setting.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Interventions for female drug-using offenders.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Effectiveness of a computerized motivational intervention on treatment initiation and substance use: Results from a randomized trial.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2017Trial
- Technology-Based Interventions for Substance Use Treatment Among People Who Identify as African American or Black, Hispanic or Latino, and American Indian or Alaska Native: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Let's decide what would be convincing, conduct randomized trials with rigorous comparison conditions, and report tests of moderation and publication bias in meta-analyses.PLOS digital health · 2022Article
- Mobile phone-based interventions for mental health: A systematic meta-review of 14 meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials.PLOS digital health · 2022Article
- An evaluation of StaySafe, a tablet app to improve health risk decision-making among people under community supervision.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2021Article
- Perceiving and remembering speech depend on multifractal nonlinearity in movements producing and exploring speech.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021Article
- A Perspective on the Integration of eHealth in Treatment of Offenders: Combining Technology and the Risk-Need-Responsivity Model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Digital Health Interventions for Mental Health, Substance Use, and Co-occurring Disorders in the Criminal Justice Population: A Scoping Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Interventions for drug-using offenders with co-occurring mental health problems.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Review
- Using text message reminders in health care services: A narrative literature review.Internet interventions · 2018Review
- eHealth in Treatment of Offenders in Forensic Mental Health: A Review of the Current State.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
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Abstract
introductionOpportunities to influence behavior through the use of electronic reminders has not been examined in a criminal justice population. The purpose of this study was to assess probationer preferences for short-term goals from a web-based program and evaluate the role of voluntary electronic reminders (e.g., text messaging, email) in achieving early treatment and probation tasks.
methodsWe used data from drug-involved offenders (n=76) participating in a clinical trial of a 2-session motivational computer program. As part of the program, participants could choose to receive text or email reminders about their probation and treatment goals for the next month. Poisson regression models were utilized to evaluate goal and reminder selection in relation to the days of substance use and treatment attendance at two-month follow-up.
resultsThe most common goals were related to probation and treatment tasks, relationships, and cognitive reappraisals. Forty-five percent of probationers elected to receive electronic goal reminders at Session 1 with a slight increase at Session two (49%). Probationers who opted to receive electronic goal reminders at Session one selected significantly more goals on average (M=4.4, SD=2.1) than probationers who did not want reminders (M=3.4, SD=1.8), (t=2.41, p=.019). Reminder selection and total number of goals selected predicted days of substance use and treatment attendance at a two-month follow-up. Probationers who opted not to receive electronic reminders and those who only chose to receive reminders at one visit had more days of substance use compared to those who chose to receive reminders at both visits, 1.66 and 2.31 times respectively. Probationers who chose not to receive electronic reminders attended 56% fewer days of treatment compared to those who chose to receive reminders at both visits.
conclusionsPeople's choice of short-term goals and reminders can provide advance notification of the likelihood of substance use and treatment initiation. Probation systems might use such information to triage at-risk probationers to a higher level of service, before problems have emerged.
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