Survey of Correction Officers Before and After a Targeted Education Campaign

NCT ID: NCT05451225

Last Updated: 2022-10-25

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 451 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-01-08
• Study Completion Date: 2022-03-05

Brief Summary

The investigators will implement a multifaceted Target Education Campaign (TEC) within the three jails about recognizing early psychotic symptoms and referring to the Correctional Health Services. This campaign will include print materials and targeted trainings for Correction Officers. To develop all aspects of the TEC, the investigators will convene a workgroup, meeting biweekly for the first 6 months, including the entire investigative team, as well as experts at the Center for Practice Innovations (CPI). Depending on the nature of agreed-upon educational materials, the investigators will use specific areas of expertise at CPI for development. Materials will provide specific, actionable, and persuasive messaging about: (1) how to identify select signs of psychosis, (2) how to refer to the Specialized Early Engagement Support Service (SEESS) (in year 2), and (3) the effectiveness of early treatment through coordinated specialty care for early psychosis. Messaging will be continuous in the three jails.

Detailed Description

Because Correction Officers in the three jails of interest are critically positioned to influence pathways to care, print materials will be supplemented with professional outreach and education by the SEESS. Roll-call is the approved venue by which all ongoing education happens for Correction Officers. Roll-calls take place at the beginning of each shift (7am, 3pm, 11pm) every day of the week in the same location and last ~ 15 - 20 minutes; all staff starting that shift attend. During roll-call, brief messages (2-3 minutes) will be delivered by the Controlling Captains, which is the standard practice for communicating important information to Correction Officers. Both daytime and overnight shifts will receive the targeted training for the 24 months of the TEC.

The investigators will collect pre-TEC (baseline) and during-TEC (at 6 months and 12 months) data from Correction Officers through brief surveys, which will be used to test changes in mean scores for knowledge, behavioral expectations, and self-efficacy, which are three key constructs from Social Cognitive Theory.

Conditions

Work-Related Condition

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SEQUENTIAL
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Targeted Educational Campaign (TEC) for Correction Officers

The investigators will implement a Targeted Educational Campaign (TEC) within 3 jails. The TEC is designed to lead to referrals of detainees (previously not detected as having potential mental health concerns) to Correctional Health Services (CHS) by Correction Officers.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Targeted Educational Campaign

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Correction Officers will be exposed to the Targeted Educational Campaign (TEC) with the aim to increase their knowledge about the early symptoms of psychosis, and how to make a referral to the Correction Health Services staff, their self-efficacy to detect symptoms of psychosis and make referrals, and their expectations about their ability to be successful in making that referral (and for referrals to result in beneficial outcomes).

Correction Officers will be approached and recruited during roll call and in the staff canteen where they take their meal breaks, or at a time/location agreed upon by the Department of Correction, to complete brief surveys at three different times; pre-exposure, after 6 months, and after 12 months from the beginning of the TEC.

Interventions

Targeted Educational Campaign

Correction Officers will be exposed to the Targeted Educational Campaign (TEC) with the aim to increase their knowledge about the early symptoms of psychosis, and how to make a referral to the Correction Health Services staff, their self-efficacy to detect symptoms of psychosis and make referrals, and their expectations about their ability to be successful in making that referral (and for referrals to result in beneficial outcomes).

Correction Officers will be approached and recruited during roll call and in the staff canteen where they take their meal breaks, or at a time/location agreed upon by the Department of Correction, to complete brief surveys at three different times; pre-exposure, after 6 months, and after 12 months from the beginning of the TEC.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Correction Officers;
• over the age of 21

Exclusion Criteria

• children under the age of 21 years

• Minimum Eligible Age: 21 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Vera Institute of Justice

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Illinois at Chicago

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of South Florida

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Columbia University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Michael Compton

Professor of Psychiatry

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Michael T. Compton, MD, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Columbia University

Locations

Columbia University

New York, New York, United States

Countries

United States

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Document Type: Informed Consent Form

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Other Identifiers

R34MH117766

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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NYSPI 7771 - 251050

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id