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

Depression Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03105973
• Other study ID #: MHRP-MOOD-001
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: January 15, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: January 2020
• Source: Jail Education Solutions, Inc.
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: January 15, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

• Incarcerated Middlesex County Jail or Woodford County jails;

• Has access to the Edovo tablet;

• is at least 18 years of age;

• Is able to speak and read English Exclusion Criteria

• None

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Mood

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Technology-Enabled CBT Treatment
CBT-based modules delivered via tablet over 4 weeks.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Middlesex County Jail	Billerica	Massachusetts
United States	Woodford County Jail	Eureka	Illinois

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Jail Education Solutions, Inc.	University of Illinois at Chicago

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)	Inventory of depression items	4 weeks
Primary	Generalized Anxiety Disorder - 7 (GAD-7)	Inventory of anxiety items	4 weeks
Primary	PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-17)	Inventory of PTSD items	4 weeks
Secondary	User satisfaction - users	How much users like the module	4 weeks