A Web-based Employment Intervention for Drug Court Participants

针对毒品法庭参与者的基于网络的就业干预

• 批准号: 7687504
• 负责人: John Matthew Webster
• 金额: $ 18.31万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7687504
• 关键词: Abuse Reporting; Address; Alcohol abuse; Area; Attitude; Client; Consent; Control Groups; Crime; Criminal Justice; Data; Dependence; Drug Courts; Drug abuse; Drug usage; Economics; Effectiveness; Employment; Employment Status; Face; Female; Gender; Group Meetings; Happiness; Health; Income; Internet; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Interview; Investigation; Kentucky; Knowledge; Legal system; Literature; Measures; Methods; Multimedia; NIH Program Announcements; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Online Systems; Outcome; Outcome Study; Participant; Perception; Performance; Persons; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Pilot Projects; Procedures; Randomized; Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials; Randomized Controlled Trials; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Resources; Role; Sampling; Schedule; Sex Characteristics; Stigmata; System; Technology; Testing; Training; Treatment outcome; Unemployment; United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Walkers; Woman; Work; base; computerized; cost; drug abuser; experience; flexibility; follow-up; group intervention; high risk; innovation; interest; intervention effect; male; men; physical abuse; programs; response; satisfaction; secondary outcome; sex; social; social stigma; success; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This twice amended R21 application is submitted by a new investigator and an established research team to conduct a study of a computerized, Web-based employment intervention for female and male drug court participants. The innovative project tailors an employment intervention developed for drug court participants and adapts it for use on the Internet. The project places special emphasis on collecting data to identify and examine important gender differences in employment, barriers to employment, and perceptions of work as well as to understand gender differences in experiences with the Web-based intervention. Although drug treatment is related to desirable employment outcomes, women have not fared as well as men on traditional measures of employment success such as employment status and earnings. The majority of employment interventions for drug abusers have not measured, or even considered, employment barriers and employment needs separately for females and males. After adapting the intervention for the Internet, this project will collect data from both female and male drug abusers and identify differences and commonalities between women and men in employment barriers, employment needs, and other work-related measures. Over the project's two years, a sample of 180 unemployed drug court participants will be recruited during a 15 month period (approximately 12 per month) from a drug court with which the investigators have a strong collaborative relationship. Participants who consent to participate will be interviewed about their employment experiences, drug use, and criminal history. Upon completing the baseline interview, participants will be randomized to a control group (drug court as usual) or to the intervention group (Web-based employment intervention in addition to drug court as usual). Participants in the intervention group will complete a five module intervention grounded in a completed randomized controlled trial of an employment intervention which focused on obtaining, maintaining, and upgrading employment. Follow-up interviews will be conducted at 3 months. The overall aim of this project is to use the findings from a promising randomized controlled trial, adapt it for use on the Internet, and test its effectiveness on unemployed female and male drug abusers. The specific aims are to: (1) Adapt an existing, efficacious employment intervention for unemployed drug court participants for Internet delivery as a Web-based intervention; (2) Evaluate the Web-based intervention's effect on employment outcomes (employment status, days worked, and earnings) and secondary outcomes (drug use and crime); and (3) Test the moderating effects of gender on the intervention's effect on employment and secondary outcomes.

描述（由申请人提供）：这两次修订的R21申请是由新的调查员和已建立的研究团队提交的，以对男性和男性毒品法庭参与者进行计算机化的，基于网络的就业干预。创新的项目量身定制了针对毒品法庭参与者开发的就业干预措施，并将其适应供互联网使用。该项目特别强调收集数据，以识别和检查就业，就业障碍，工作障碍以及对基于Web的干预经验中的性别差异的重要性别差异。尽管药物治疗与理想的就业结果有关，但妇女在传统的就业成功措施（例如就业状况和收入）方面的表现并不像男性一样。滥用毒品的大多数就业干预措施尚未分别测量甚至考虑到女性和男性的就业障碍和就业需求。调整了互联网干预措施后，该项目将从女性和男性毒品毒品中收集数据，并在就业障碍，就业需求以及其他与工作有关的措施中确定男女之间的差异和共同点。在该项目的两年中，将在15个月的时间内（每月约12个）招募180名失业的药物法院参与者，该毒品法院与调查人员建立了牢固的合作关系。同意参加的参与者将接受有关其就业经验，毒品使用和犯罪历史的采访。完成基线访谈后，参与者将被随机分配给对照组（像往常一样）或干预组（基于Web的就业干预措施，除了往常时）。干预小组的参与者将完成五个模块干预措施，该模块的雇用干预措施的完整随机对照试验，该试验的重点是获得，维持和升级就业。后续采访将在3个月内进行。该项目的总体目的是利用有希望的随机对照试验中的发现，适应互联网上的使用，并测试其对失业的女性和男性滥用者的有效性。具体目的是：（1）适应现有的，有效的就业干预措施，以作为基于网络的干预措施，以将失业的毒品法院参与者作为互联网交付； （2）评估基于网络的干预对就业结果（就业状况，工作日期和收入）和次要结果（吸毒和犯罪）的影响； （3）测试性别对干预对就业和次要结果影响的调节作用。