Evaluating A Drug Testing and Graduated Sanctions Program in Delaware

Recidivism Clinical Trial

— DYT  

Official title:

Evaluating A Drug Testing and Graduated Sanctions Program in Delaware

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01187121
• Other study ID #: 139855
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 20, 2010
• Last updated: August 20, 2010
• Start date: June 2010

Study information

• Verified date: August 2010
• Source: University of Delaware
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The objective of this three year project funded by the National Institute of Justice is to conduct a program evaluation of the "Decide Your Time" program at the Hares Corner Office of the Delaware Department of Probation and Parole. The program is intended to provide an alternative to incarceration by monitoring chronic drug offenders through increased, regularly scheduled, known urinalysis testing, coupled with increasing sanctions and referral to treatment for positive tests. The program was designed and is being implemented by the Delaware Department of Probation and Parole. Offenders will become eligible for the program when they test positive for drugs at their initial probation intake at the Hare's Corner Probation Office in New Castle, Delaware or are moved from standard probation to intensive supervision due to failed urine tests. Due to budgetary constraints, the office lacks sufficient resources to place all eligible offenders into the program. The Department of Probation thus intends to randomly assign eligible offenders to either intensive supervision probation (ISP)(n=400) or the Decide Your Time program(n=400). Those in ISP will receive the normal intensive supervision requirements, including weekly visits and random urinalysis. Those in the enhanced condition will receive regularly scheduled urinalysis coupled with referral to treatment, if required, and a program of graduated sanctions. The Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies is conducting an evaluation of the program that involves examining data on effectiveness, and collecting and examining data on program implementation, and probation officer and client perspectives of how the program worked. It is hypothesized that those randomized to the Decide Your Time program will have fewer arrests, violations and positive urine screens upon program completion than those randomized to the control condition.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 800
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• sentenced to intensive supervision and fails a urine drug screen at the HAres Corner Probation office in Delaware

Exclusion Criteria:

• Clinical Diagnosis of DSM-IV Mental Illness

• Judge ordered Zero Tolerance program

• Sex Offender

• Less than sixty days on probation

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Drug Relapse
• Probationary Failure
• Recidivism

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	New Castle Day Reporting Center at Hares Corner, 26 Parkway Circle	New Castle	Delaware

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Delaware	Delaware Department of Probation & Parole

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

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