Art as Healing: A Community-informed Art-based Programme (CiAbP) for Reintegrating Ex-offenders Into Society in Nigeria

Depression Clinical Trial

Official title:

Art as Healing: A Community-informed Art-based Programme (CiAbP) for Reintegrating Ex-offenders Into Society in Nigeria

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05614687
• Other study ID #: 0000-0003-0516-0313b
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: August 30, 2026

Study information

• Verified date: November 2022
• Source: Teesside University
• Contact: T Ike
• Phone: 07831 163 474
• Email: t.ike[@]tees.ac.uk
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this pilot experimental study is to test a community-informed art-based programme in improving community members trauma from crime and to aid the reintegration of ex-offenders into society.

The main question it aims to answer are:

• What is the feasibility in terms of recruitment, retention, adherence to the intervention and communities/victims' satisfaction with CiAbP to promote healing and improve the successful reintegration of ex-offenders into society?

Participants will be randomly allocated into two groups. The first group, the intervention group, will receive the Community-informed Art-based programme (CiAbP). The second group will receive government intervention involving media messages from the National Orientation Agency devoid of CiAbP. The CiAbP. sessions will cover relevant aspects of art, such as photo story, story telling, poetry, and drawing in tackling trauma and negative attitudes towards ex-offenders reintegration.

Researchers will compare CiAbP group with the media orientation group to see if there are differences between a change in attitude towards ex-offenders' reintegration at base line, end of intervention and three months follow up.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: August 30, 2026
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Community members with previous experience of trauma

• Aged 18+ years and are residents in areas including Lagos/Delta states and its environs.

• Able to give informed consent,

• Speak the English language,

• Able to partake in baseline, pre-, post- and three-month follow-up data collection.

Exclusion Criteria:

• The exclusion criteria are those not meeting the study's inclusion criteria.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety and Fear
• Depression
• Trauma

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Community-informed art-based programme
The Community-informed art-based programme is an intervention incorporating art in the form of for example poetry and drawings in addressing trauma and encouraging community attitudes towards the positive reintegration of ex-offenders.

Other:
• Government Media Intervention
Government Media Intervention involving media content from the National Orientation Agency and other media sources

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Teesside University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Trauma Screening Questionnaire	Change in traumatic experience is being assessed; Change in traumatic experience is being assessed Change in traumatic experience is being assessed	Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention
Primary	Belief in Redeemability Scale v2	Change in of attitude towards ex-offenders' reintegration is being assessed	Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention
Primary	Service Satisfaction Scale	Change in service satisfaction is being assessed	Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention