Reducing Opioid and Other Drug Use in Justice-Involved Emerging Adults using Paraprofessional Coaches (with and without Lived Experience) to Deliver Effective Services in a Non-Treatment Setting

使用辅助专业教练（有或没有生活经验）减少涉及司法的新兴成年人的阿片类药物和其他药物使用，以在非治疗环境中提供有效的服务

• 批准号: 9892227
• 负责人: Tess K. Drazdowski
• 金额: $ 17.53万
• 依托单位: OSLC DEVELOPMENTS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-15 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9892227
• 关键词: Address; Adherence; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; American; Belief; Bioethics; Cessation of life; Client; Clinical Psychology; Communities; Complex; Development; Drops; Drug usage; Education; Educational workshop; Elements; Employment; Epidemic; Ethics; Evidence based practice; Future; Goals; Grant; Health; Health Services; Health Services Research; Improve Access; Individual; Injury; Intervention; Justice; Knowledge; Lead; Measurement; Medical; Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award; Mentorship; Methodology; Methods; Monitor; Opiate Addiction; Opioid; Outcome; Performance; Population; Public Health; Qualitative Methods; Qualitative Research; Randomized; Randomized Clinical Trials; Recovery; Reporting; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Risk Factors; Role; Sampling; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Services; Societies; Source; Statistical Methods; Symptoms; System; Testing; Time; Training; Training Activity; Vertebral column; Vulnerable Populations; Work; Writing; age group; aged; base; career; career development; contingency management; cost; criminal behavior; design; developmental psychology; emerging adult; evidence base; experience; high risk; high risk population; human subject protection; implementation research; implementation science; improved; innovation; lectures; novel; opioid epidemic; opioid overdose; opioid use; outpatient programs; parole; peer; peer support; premature; probation; programs; recidivism; reduced substance use; relapse risk; research and development; service programs; service providers; skills; societal costs; statistics; success; symposium; unintended pregnancy

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The ultimate goal of this Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) is to develop the applicant into an independent investigator prepared to lead ethical, large-scale, and rigorously designed health services research focused on high-risk emerging adults (EAs; aged 18-25). Specifically, the applicant will focus on improving access to and engagement in evidence-based practices (EBPs) for EAs with opioid and other substance use (SU) and co-occurring justice system (JS) involvement, via use of paraprofessional coaches. The proposed career development and research plan builds on the applicant's prior training in clinical and developmental psychology, EBPs, and SU. Through the proposed training plan, the applicant will: (1) gain direct experience conducting ethical health services research with vulnerable populations; (2) attain knowledge and skills for measurement, methodologies, and the interplay of key developmental outcomes in EAs with opioid and other SU problems; (3) advance expertise in the complex statistical methods required for health services research, including mixed methods research, and (4) facilitate professional development as an independent health services researcher focused on EAs with opioid and other SU problems via extensive training in grant writing, grants management, and development of a health services program of research. Training activities will include formal training and mentorship from a team of experts in the fields of SU, randomized clinical trials, EA peer support, bioethics, justice, implementation, and advanced health services statistical methods; intensive training in conducting ethical research with high-risk populations; coursework and lectures on implementation science, qualitative research methods, statistics, and protection of human subjects; and participation in scientific workshops and conferences. The applicant will apply these skills to pilot research aimed at using paraprofessional coaches to increase engagement and access to EBPs (i.e., contingency management for SU and vocational/educational coaching) for EAs with SU and JS involvement. In partnership with parole and probation, EAs with SU will be randomized to work with paraprofessional coaches either with or without lived experience (i.e., successful SU recovery). Although using peer paraprofessional coaches (those with lived experience) is becoming more popular and supported at the federal level, the outcome of this work on the paraprofessional coaches themselves, especially for EAs, is largely unexplored. The proposed study will use both quantitative and qualitative methods to gain a better understanding of the impacts on both the coaches and their EA clients using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). Given the high rates and particularly detrimental effects of SU for EAs with JS involvement, the goals of this project have the potential to address an important and costly public health problem. As SU and poor vocational/educational attainment greatly increases the likelihood of recidivism, innovative strategies to reduce opioid and other SU for EAs is critical, along with understanding the effects on the service providers (i.e., paraprofessional coaches).

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