Clinical trial NCT01970293: AA Linkage for Alcohol Abusing Women Leaving Jail
Official title: AA Linkage for Alcohol Abusing Women Leaving Jail
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Alcohol Use
AA Attendance
Sexual Risk Behavior
Keywords: Alcohol use
STI
Incarcerated women
AA
Lead sponsor: Butler Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2013-10-28
Enrollment: 210
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The primary aims of this study are to test the hypotheses that among alcohol abusing and dependent jailed women returning to the community, adding an Alcoholic Anonymous (AA) linkage intervention will result in less alcohol use at follow-up, increased AA attendance once released, and decreased HIV/STI sexual risk behavior. Additionally, this study seeks to test the hypotheses that increased AA attendance will mediate the effect of the AA linkage intervention on alcohol use and that percent days abstinent will mediate the effect of the intervention on HIV/STI sexual risk-taking outcomes.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

To be eligible for the study participants must:

1. Be 18 years or older
2. Live in RI or MA within 20 miles of Providence and plan to remain in the area for the next 6 months
3. Meet DSM-IV criteria for alcohol abuse or dependence in the last six months
4. Do not expect to attend residential alcohol or drug treatment upon release
5. Report STI/HIV sexual risk defined as unprotected heterosexual sex at least three times in the three months prior to incarceration
6. Speak English.
7. Be currently held at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institutions Jail facility

Women will be excluded from participation if they:

1. Cannot provide the name of at least two locator persons who will know where they can be found.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in number of alcohol use days from baseline to 6 months
timeFrame: Baseline, 1, 3, and 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Providence
country: United States
facility: Butler Hospital
state: Rhode Island
Study officials:
References:
citation: Timko C, Chatav Schonbrun Y, Anderson B, Johnson JE, Stein M. Perceived Substance Use Norms Among Jailed Women with Alcohol Use Disorders. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2020 Sep;44(9):1834-1841. doi: 10.1111/acer.14403. Epub 2020 Sep 2.
citation: Schonbrun YC, Kurth M, Johnson J, Timko C, Stein M. Participant Evaluation of Twelve-Step Group Linkage for Jailed Women With Alcohol Use Disorder. Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2019 Mar;63(4):610-623. doi: 10.1177/0306624X18805598. Epub 2018 Oct 12.
citation: Timko C, Johnson JE, Kurth M, Schonbrun YC, Anderson BJ, Stein MD. Health Services Use Among Jailed Women with Alcohol Use Disorders. J Behav Health Serv Res. 2019 Jan;46(1):116-128. doi: 10.1007/s11414-018-9634-7.
citation: Hailemariam M, Stein M, Anderson B, Schonbrun YC, Moore K, Kurth M, Richie F, Johnson JE. Correlates of alcoholics anonymous affiliation among justice-involved women. BMC Womens Health. 2018 Jul 11;18(1):125. doi: 10.1186/s12905-018-0614-0.