Technology Enabled Mental Health Intervention for Individuals in the Criminal Justice System

NCT ID: NCT03105973

Last Updated: 2020-01-27

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 50 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2018-10-01
• Study Completion Date: 2019-01-15

Brief Summary

In the United States, over 60% of the 2.2 million people who are incarcerated struggle with mental health problems. Currently, correctional facilities are limited in their ability to provide care. As technology-enabled interventions for mood disorders have demonstrated efficacy outside of correctional facilities, the investigators propose to build and test a technology-enabled mood disorder treatment intervention for individuals who are incarcerated.

Detailed Description

In the United States, over 2.2 million people are incarcerated. While these numbers are alarming, even more distressing is the rapid growth in the number of mentally ill individuals caught in this system. Within any given year, approximately 73% of females and 55% of males in jail will experience a mental health problem. This results in the criminal justice system serving as a de facto mental health treatment facility for hundreds of thousands of individuals, despite constrained funding and a paucity of qualified providers and interventions. More than one in five jails have no access to mental health services.

There is strong evidence that technology-enabled interventions for the treatment of mood disorders are efficacious and cost effective. Technology-enabled mental health care has many strengths, including the ability to deliver treatment reliably, increase privacy for those seeking services, and provide a scalable evidence-based intervention at a lower cost than traditional face-to-face services.

Edovo has previously developed secure tablet hardware, protected networks and a learning management system that deliver static content in the areas of academic, job skill, and life skill programming to those incarcerated. The aim of this project is to develop and demonstrate the feasibility of a dynamic intervention for the treatment of inmates with mood disorders utilizing the Edovo system. A user centered design approach will be used to modify existing evidence-based, technology-enabled mood interventions to be appropriate for the incarcerated population. Software will be modified to run the intervention on the existing Edovo system. The resulting intervention will be tested in a sample of inmates for an initial clinical signal. The development of such a technology would help correctional facilities more effectively meet their treatment requirements and rehabilitation goals.

Conditions

Depression; Anxiety; Mood

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Open-Label Trial Arm

Will receive 4 weeks of technology-enabled CBT treatment.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Technology-Enabled CBT Treatment

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

CBT-based modules delivered via tablet over 4 weeks.

Interventions

Technology-Enabled CBT Treatment

CBT-based modules delivered via tablet over 4 weeks.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Incarcerated Middlesex County Jail or Woodford County jails;
• Has access to the Edovo tablet;
• is at least 18 years of age;

Exclusion Criteria

• None

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Illinois at Chicago

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Jail Education Solutions, Inc.

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Woodford County Jail

Eureka, Illinois, United States

Middlesex County Jail

Billerica, Massachusetts, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

MHRP-MOOD-001

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id