Exploring Treatment Completion and Participant Feedback in an Adapted Intervention among Incarcerated Men with Mental Illness.

Melissa L Villodas, Jonathan Phillips, Ehren Dohler, Anna Parisi, Faith Scanlon, Chloe Pilkerton, Amy Blank Wilson

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Article in Community mental health journal, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Melissa L VillodasDepartment of Social Work, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MSN IF8, 22030, Fairfax, VA, USA. mvilloda@gmu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1920-6768

Jonathan PhillipsDepartment of Social Work, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7364-4454

Ehren DohlerSchool of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Anna ParisiDepartment of Social Work, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MSN IF8, 22030, Fairfax, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8763-1128

Faith ScanlonDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9734-2792

Chloe PilkertonDepartment of Social Work, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MSN IF8, 22030, Fairfax, VA, USA.

Amy Blank WilsonSchool of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5030-3451

Funding

NIMH NIH HHS R34-MH-111855

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Treatment completion in interventions within correctional settings is challenging both generally and for people with mental illness (MI). Few studies have explored treatment completion alongside feedback from this population. We examined the rates of treatment completion alongside participant feedback to explore how participant feedback can improve treatment completion. Mixed-methods were used to examine treatment completion rates and clinical characteristics of participants (n = 24), and to explore participant feedback. We used thematic, qualitative analysis of participant feedback (n = 17) obtained from interviews, alongside univariate statistics to describe the sample of treatment completers and non-completers. Three-quarters of participants completed the treatment. Non-completers had a higher proportion of one or more infractions than completers. Four themes from participant feedback emerged in the qualitative analysis: Practice, Applicable Takeaways, Intervention Pace, and Group Dynamics. Participants' feedback highlights important considerations for responsive practices to improve treatment completion among incarcerated men with MI.

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Mental DisordersPatient CompliancePrisonersAdultFeedbackHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMiddle AgedQualitative ResearchCriminal legal systemCriminogenic factorsIntervention researchMental illnessTreatment retention

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PMID41107680

DOI10.1007/s10597-025-01539-9

PMCPMC12963205

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