NCT00249613

Gender-Responsive Treatment for Women Offenders - 1

Gender-Responsive Treatment for Women Offenders

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 291 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether substance abuse treatment designed specifically for drug-dependent women offenders provides better outcomes than standard drug court treatment (mixed-gender programs).

Detailed description

In this five-year study, a total of 300 women entering court-referred treatment throughout Los Angeles County and who agree to participate in the study will be randomly assigned to a women-focused or to a mixed-gender outpatient treatment program. The study will assess the impact of women-focused substance abuse treatment using outcome measures including recidivism, substance abuse and relapse, and social adjustment (e.g., employment, parenting behaviors, psychological improvement, and HIV risk reduction behaviors), compared to the impact of traditional mixed-gender programs. Assessments will occur at baseline and at 1 month, 12 months, and 24 months after admission.

Conditions

• Substance Abuse Problem

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Women-Only	Gender-responsive treatment for women only

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-06-01
• Primary completion: 2009-01-01
• Completion: 2009-01-01
• First posted: 2005-11-07
• Last updated: 2014-04-07
• Results posted: 2014-04-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States