Recovery Management Checkups for Women Offenders (RMC-WO)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01334164 |
Recruitment Status
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Completed
First Posted
: April 13, 2011
Last Update Posted
: July 29, 2015
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Recovery Management Checkup (RMC) Outcome Monitoring | Behavioral: Recovery Management Checkups Other: Outcome Monitoring | Phase 2 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 480 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Recovery Management Checkups for Women Offenders Experiment |
Study Start Date : | July 2007 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | June 2015 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | June 2015 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Recovery Management Checkup (RMC)
Women assigned to the RMC condition met with a linkage manager after each research interview. When a woman reported substance use, HIV risk behavior or illegal activity, the linkage manager used motivational interviewing to: provide feedback regarding her current substance use, HIV risk behavior or illegal activity, discuss barriers that prevented her from stopping each activity and ways of avoiding them in the future, and assess and discuss her level of motivation for change. Linkage managers also scheduled treatment appointments, accompanied the women to treatment intake and stayed through the process and implemented an Engagement and Retention Protocol designed to improve retention rates. For women who refused the treatment option, the linkage manager and participant agreed upon an Alternative Action plan, which included various behaviors the woman had agreed to engage in to reduce or stop her substance use, HIV risk, or her participation in illegal activity.
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Behavioral: Recovery Management Checkups
Women assigned to the RMC condition met with a linkage manager after each research interview. When a woman reported substance use, HIV risk behavior or illegal activity, the linkage manager used motivational interviewing to: provide feedback regarding her current substance use, HIV risk behavior or illegal activity, discuss barriers that prevented her from stopping each activity and ways of avoiding them in the future, and assess and discuss her level of motivation for change. Linkage managers also scheduled treatment appointments, accompanied the women to treatment intake and stayed through the process and implemented an Engagement and Retention Protocol designed to improve retention rates. For women who refused the treatment option, the linkage manager and participant agreed upon an Alternative Action plan, which included various behaviors the woman had agreed to engage in to reduce or stop her substance use, HIV risk, or her participation in illegal activity.
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Active Comparator: Outcome Monitoring
Outcome monitoring only, however participates are still able (and do) enter treatment on their own.
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Other: Outcome Monitoring
Outcome monitoring only, however participates are still able (and do) enter treatment on their own
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- Time to treatment re-entry [ Time Frame: 3 years post release ]Time from first relapse (after release from jail) to first treatment re-entry measured in days and censored at the last observation.
- Any Treatment [ Time Frame: Quarterly and over 3 years ]Receipt of any substance abuse treatment during each quarter and overall all observed quarters.
- Abstinence [ Time Frame: Quarterly and over 3 years ]Based on no self reported use and clean urine tests at 30, 60 and 90 days post release for: a) any alcohol or drugs, b) alcohol, c) cannabis, d) cocaine, and e) opiates
- HIV risk behaviors and Recidivism [ Time Frame: Quarterly and over 3 years ]Based on no self report post release of a) unprotected sex defined as having vaginal, anal or oral sex without a barrier like a male condom, women's condom, or dental dam.; b) no self reported illegal activity other than drug use and no arrest; and c) no days in jail or prison.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Phase 1
Inclusion Criteria:
- adult women offenders with substance problems re-entering the community from county jail programs
Exclusion Criteria:
- had not used substances in the 90 days before incarceration
- had no abuse/dependence symptoms
- were under 18 years old
- lived or planned to move outside Chicago within the next 12 months
- were not fluent in English or Spanish
- were cognitively unable to provide informed consent and were released before the 14th day of incarceration Phase 2
Inclusion Criteria:
- released to the community
- agreed to participate in the study
- completed the initial interview

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01334164
United States, Illinois | |
Chestnut Health Systems-Lighthouse Institute | |
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60610 | |
Chestnut Health Systems | |
Normal, Illinois, United States, 61761 |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Chestnut Health Systems |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01334164 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
1037-0905 R01DA021174 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) |
First Posted: | April 13, 2011 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | July 29, 2015 |
Last Verified: | July 2015 |
Keywords provided by Chestnut Health Systems:
substance use disorder offenders reentry HIV risk behavior recidivism |