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Trial reportContemporary clinical trials2017

Study protocol: Community Links to Establish Alcohol Recovery (CLEAR) for women leaving jail.

Jennifer E Johnson, Yael Chatav Schonbrun, Bradley Anderson, Megan Kurth, Christine Timko, Michael Stein

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Contemporary clinical trials, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Health Services Use Among Jailed Women with Alcohol Use Disorders.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2019
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  4. Participant Evaluation of Twelve-Step Group Linkage for Jailed Women With Alcohol Use Disorder.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jennifer E JohnsonDivision of Public Health, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, 200 East 1st St Room 367, Flint, MI 48503, United States. Electronic address: Jennifer.Johnson@hc.msu.edu.
Yael Chatav SchonbrunButler Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 345 Blackstone Blvd, Providence, RI 02906, United States. Electronic address: Yael_Chatav_Schonbrun@brown.edu.
Bradley AndersonButler Hospital, 345 Blackstone Blvd, Providence, RI 02906, United States. Electronic address: BJAnderson@Butler.org.
Megan KurthButler Hospital, 345 Blackstone Blvd, Providence, RI 02906, United States. Electronic address: MKurth@Butler.org.
Christine TimkoDepartment of Veterans Affairs, Stanford University School of Medicine, 795 Willow Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States. Electronic address: ctimko@stanford.edu.
Michael SteinBoston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, United States. Electronic address: Michael_Stein@brown.edu.

Funding

AA Linkage for Alcohol Abusing Women Leaving JailR01AA021732 · NIAAA · BUTLER HOSPITAL (PROVIDENCE, RI) · PI JOHNSON, JENNIFER E, STEIN, MICHAEL D · 2013 to 2017
$2.5M
NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA021732
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThis article describes the protocol for a randomized effectiveness trial of a method to link alcohol use disordered women who are in pretrial jail detention with post-release 12-step mutual help groups.

backgroundJails serve 15 times more people per year than do prisons and have very short stays, posing few opportunities for treatment or treatment planning. Alcohol use is associated with poor post-jail psychosocial and health outcomes including sexually transmitted diseases and HIV, especially for women. At least weekly 12-step self-help group attendance in the months after release from jail has been associated with improvements in alcohol use and alcohol-related consequences. Linkage strategies improve 12-step attendance and alcohol outcomes among outpatients, but have not previously been tested in criminal justice populations.

designIn the intervention condition, a 12-step volunteer meets once individually with an incarcerated woman while she is in jail and arranges to be in contact after release to accompany her to 12-step meetings. The control condition provides schedules for local 12-step meetings. Outcomes include percent days abstinent from alcohol (primary), 12-step meeting involvement, and fewer unprotected sexual occasions (secondary) after release from jail. We hypothesize that (Minton, 2015) 12-step involvement will mediate the intervention's effect on alcohol use, and (O'Brien, 2001) percent days abstinent will mediate the intervention's effect on STI/HIV risk-taking outcomes. Research methods accommodate logistical and philosophical hurdles including rapid turnover of commitments and unpredictable release times at the jail, possible post-randomization ineligibility due to sentencing, 12-step principles such as Nonaffiliation, and use of volunteers as interventionists.

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Alcohol AbstinenceAlcoholismFemaleHumansPrisonsResearch DesignUnsafe Sex12-stepAlcohol addictionJailVolunteersWomen

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PMID28185995
PMCPMC5449123

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