AA Linkage for Alcohol Abusing Women Leaving Jail

Alcohol Use Clinical Trial

Official title:

AA Linkage for Alcohol Abusing Women Leaving Jail

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01970293
• Other study ID #: 1R01AA021732-01A1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 2013
• Est. completion date: July 2020

Study information

• Verified date: September 2020
• Source: Butler Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 210
• Est. completion date: July 2020
• Est. primary completion date: July 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

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.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• AA Attendance
• Alcohol Drinking
• Alcohol Use
• Sexual Risk Behavior

Intervention

Other:
• Introduction to AA volunteer
In-person, in jail introduction to an AA volunteer, who will offer assistance in attending 2 AA meetings.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Butler Hospital	Providence	Rhode Island

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Butler Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in number of alcohol use days from baseline to 6 months	Timeline Followback (TLFB) participant recall of alcohol use days.	Baseline, 1, 3, and 6 months