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: 7477393
• 负责人: John Matthew Webster
• 金额: $ 21.98万
• 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 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7477393
• 关键词: Address; Alcohol abuse; Area; Attitude; Client; Condition; Consent; Control Groups; Crime; Criminal Justice; Data; Dependence; Drug Courts; Drug abuse; Drug usage; Economics; Effectiveness; Effectiveness of Interventions; 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; Numbers; Online Systems; Outcome; Participant; Perception; Performance; Persons; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Pilot Projects; Pliability; Procedures; Purpose; Randomized; Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials; Randomized Controlled Trials; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; 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; day; drug abuser; experience; follow-up; innovation; interest; male; men; physical abuse; programs; response; satisfaction; 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)：这份两次修订的R21申请是由一名新的调查员和一个现有的研究团队提交的，目的是对女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研究。这个创新的项目为毒品法庭参与者量身定做了一种就业干预措施，并对其进行了调整，使其适用于互联网。该项目特别重视收集数据，以确定和检查就业方面的重要性别差异、就业障碍和对工作的看法，以及了解基于网络的干预经验中的性别差异。尽管药物治疗与理想的就业结果有关，但在就业状况和收入等衡量就业成功的传统指标上，妇女的表现不如男子。大多数针对吸毒者的就业干预措施没有单独衡量，甚至没有考虑到女性和男性的就业障碍和就业需求。在将干预措施改编为互联网后，该项目将收集女性和男性吸毒者的数据，并确定女性和男性在就业障碍、就业需求和其他与工作有关的措施方面的差异和共同点。在该项目的两年中，将在15个月期间(大约每月12个月)从与调查人员有密切合作关系的毒品法庭招募180名失业的毒品法庭参与者。同意参与的参与者将被问及他们的工作经历、吸毒和犯罪史。在完成基线访谈后，参与者将被随机分成对照组(照常毒品法庭)或干预组(通常在毒品法庭的基础上进行网络就业干预)。干预组的参与者将完成一项以就业干预的完整随机对照试验为基础的五模块干预，该试验的重点是获得、维持和提升就业。后续访谈将在3个月后进行。该项目的总体目标是利用一项前景看好的随机对照试验的结果，将其应用于互联网，并测试其对失业的女性和男性吸毒者的有效性。具体目标是：(1)将现有的、有效的针对失业毒品法庭参与者的就业干预措施改编为基于网络的干预措施；(2)评估基于网络的干预措施对就业结果(就业状况、工作天数和收入)和次要结果(吸毒和犯罪)的影响；以及(3)测试性别对干预措施对就业和次要结果的影响的缓和效果。