Violence Brief Intervention Pilot v1.1

NCT ID: NCT02394990

Last Updated: 2015-03-31

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 300 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2015-03-31
• Study Completion Date: 2016-03-31

Brief Summary

This study is a randomised controlled trial of a new brief intervention with young (16-29) adult male patients who have a facial injury sustained as a result of interpersonal violence (fighting or assaults). It will be undertaken at the Maxillofacial outpatient trauma clinic at the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow. The major risk factors associated with facial injury in Scotland are male gender, young age, interpersonal violence and alcohol. Previous research with facial injury patients attending this clinic has shown that an Alcohol Brief Intervention (ABI) is effective in helping reduce alcohol consumption, so all patients are now offered ABI as standard practice. ABI is delivered by trained nurses from Addiction Services. This will not be withdrawn. In addition we wish to offer some patients a Violence Brief Intervention (VBI). This will be delivered by the same nurses who deliver the ABI. The study is randomised so only those selected at random will receive this extra intervention and all others will receive treatment as normal (ABI only). VBI is a short psychological intervention which uses Brief Motivational Interviewing (BMI) to encourage reflection of involvement in violence and consideration of strategies to avoid future violence. The intervention also compares participants' attitudes towards violence to those of their peers. The intervention takes about 15 minutes, and patients will be involved for an additional 30-45 minutes longer than normal when they attend the clinic, including consent and baseline data collection. Patients will be followed up by telephone at 1, 3 and 6 months, and asked a suite of questions which will take approximately 15 minutes on each occasion. We wish to determine whether a VBI of this type has any effect on attitudes to violence or propensity for involvement in violence or on reinjury, examined through self report measures and routinely collected health and criminal justice data at 12 months post intervention.

Conditions

Alcohol Consumption; Violence; Facial Injuries

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Violence Brief Intervention

Participants receive a standard of care brief motivational intervention (BMI) to address alcohol consumption (ABI) based on self reported use and their relationship between consumption and behavior, followed by an additional BMI to address how involvement in violence (VBI) impacts their life, relationship to social norms, and strategies to avoid violence.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Violence Brief Intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Strategies for self assessment of consequences of violent behavior and strategies for avoidance of violence

Control

Participants receive only ABI

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

ABI

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Interventions

Violence Brief Intervention

Strategies for self assessment of consequences of violent behavior and strategies for avoidance of violence

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

ABI

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

VBI

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• facial trauma patients
• Facial injury resulting from interpersonal violence (whether victim or perpetrator)
• Able to give informed consent
• Willing to commit to screening intervention and follow up programme lasting 6 months
• Within 28 days of injury
• Willing to provide either a contact telephone number or email address for the followup surveys
• Participants score ≥ 3/16 on the Fast Alcohol Screening Test (FAST)

Exclusion Criteria

• Unable to give informed e.g. adults with dementia, severe psychiatric problems, patients with learning difficulties who cannot consent for themselves
• Under 16 or over 29 years of age.
• Injury more than 28 days old
• Participants score ≤ 2/16 on the FAST measure

• Minimum Eligible Age: 16 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 28 Years
• Eligible Sex: MALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Glasgow

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Christine Goodall, BDS, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Glasgow

Locations

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Southern General Hospital

Glasgow, , United Kingdom

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United Kingdom

Central Contacts

Christine Goodall, BDS, PhD

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 441412119655

Email: christine.goodall@glasgow.ac.uk

Facility Contacts

Christine Goodall, BDS, PhD

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

GN14NU421

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id