Art as Healing: A Community-informed Art-based Programme (CiAbP) for Reintegrating Ex-offenders Into Society in Nigeria

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The goal of this pilot experimental study is to test a community-informed art-based programme in improving community members trauma from crime and to aid the reintegration of ex-offenders into society. The main question it aims to answer are: • What is the feasibility in terms of recruitment, retention, adherence to the intervention and communities/victims' satisfaction with CiAbP to promote healing and improve the successful reintegration of ex-offenders into society? Participants will be randomly allocated into two groups. The first group, the intervention group, will receive the Community-informed Art-based programme (CiAbP). The second group will receive government intervention involving media messages from the National Orientation Agency devoid of CiAbP. The CiAbP. sessions will cover relevant aspects of art, such as photo story, story telling, poetry, and drawing in tackling trauma and negative attitudes towards ex-offenders reintegration. Researchers will compare CiAbP group with the media orientation group to see if there are differences between a change in attitude towards ex-offenders' reintegration at base line, end of intervention and three months follow up.

Official Title
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Art as Healing: A Community-informed Art-based Programme (CiAbP) for Reintegrating Ex-offenders Into Society in Nigeria

Conditions
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Trauma, Depression, Anxiety and Fear

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Community-informed art-based programme
* Other: Government Media Intervention


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Community members with previous experience of trauma Aged 18+ years and are residents in areas including Lagos/Delta states and its environs. Able to give informed consent, Speak the English language, Able to partake in baseline, pre-, post- and three-month follow-up data collection. Exclusion Criteria: The exclusion criteria are those not meeting the study's inclusion criteria.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Community-informed art-based programme (CiAbP)<br>The CiAbP sessions will cover relevant aspects of art, such as poetry, spoken words, painting, drawing, literature, and music, in tackling trauma and negative attitudes towards ex-offenders reintegration. | Behavioral: Community-informed art-based programme<br>* The Community-informed art-based programme is an intervention incorporating art in the form of for example poetry and drawings in addressing trauma and encouraging community attitudes towards the positive reintegration of ex-offenders.<br>|
| Active Comparator: Government intervention involving media messages<br>It will involve media messages from the National Orientation Agency devoid of CiAbP and other media sources on materials such as health and public awareness. | Other: Government Media Intervention<br>* Government Media Intervention involving media content from the National Orientation Agency and other media sources<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Trauma Screening Questionnaire | Change in traumatic experience is being assessed Change in traumatic experience is being assessed Change in traumatic experience is being assessed | Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention | 
| Belief in Redeemability Scale v2 | Change in of attitude towards ex-offenders' reintegration is being assessed | Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention | 
| Service Satisfaction Scale | Change in service satisfaction is being assessed | Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Trauma, Anxiety and Fear