Automated Telephone Follow-up in the Swedish Prison and Probation Services

NCT ID: NCT01727882

Last Updated: 2012-11-16

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

108 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-12-31

Study Completion Date

2010-09-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to investigate whether automated telephony may be used for daily assessments of paroled offenders, and whether a brief intervention based on these daily assessments may result in a more positive development compared to daily assessments only.

Detailed Description

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To study whether automated telephony could be used in paroled offenders to perform daily assessment of variables associated with recidivism in crime and to study the effects of a brief intervention based on these assessments during 30 days following probation.

Conditions

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Affect Alcohol Consumption Substance Abuse

Keywords

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Paroled offenders Interactive Voice Response Stress Mental symptoms Alcohol consumption Substance use

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Daily Assessments & Brief Feedback

Daily assessments during 30 days after parole and a feedback intervention based on these daily assessments.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Brief feedback

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

A brief feedback was given on the results of the daily assessments, including a recommendation to the paroled offender and a email report was sent to the probation officer.

Daily assessments

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Daily assessment of stress, mental symptoms, alcohol and substance use during 30 consecutive days after parole.

Daily assessments

Daily assessments during 30 days after parole.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Daily assessments

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Daily assessment of stress, mental symptoms, alcohol and substance use during 30 consecutive days after parole.

Interventions

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Brief feedback

A brief feedback was given on the results of the daily assessments, including a recommendation to the paroled offender and a email report was sent to the probation officer.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Daily assessments

Daily assessment of stress, mental symptoms, alcohol and substance use during 30 consecutive days after parole.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Convicted criminals subject to parole
* Access to a mobile telephone
* Assigned parole officer at parole

Exclusion Criteria

* No knowledge of spoken Swedish
* Additional intervention such as intensive supervision with electronic monitoring, or in-patient care at a health and rehabilitation clinic
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Lund University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Malmö University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Region Skane

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Claes Andersson

PhD

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Claes Andersson, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Lund university and Malmö university

Locations

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The Swedish Prison and Probation Services, Region South and Region East

Norrköping, , Sweden

Site Status

Countries

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Sweden

Other Identifiers

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535629

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

535629

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id