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申请是由一名新的研究人员和一个既定的研究小组提交的，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。这一创新项目为毒品法庭参与者量身定制了一项就业干预措施，并将其改编用于互联网。该项目特别重视收集数据，以查明和审查就业方面的重要性别差异、就业障碍和对工作的看法，并了解在网上干预方面的性别差异。虽然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标准方面，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分别衡量甚至考虑到男女的就业障碍和就业需求。在对干预措施进行调整以适应互联网之后，该项目将收集男女药物滥用者的数据，并查明男女在就业障碍、就业需求和其他与工作有关的措施方面的差异和共同点。在该项目的两年期间，将在15个月期间（大约每月12人）从与调查人员有密切合作关系的毒品法庭中招募180名失业的毒品法庭参与者。同意参加的参与者将接受有关其就业经历，吸毒和犯罪历史的采访。在完成基线访谈后，参与者将被随机分配到对照组（毒品法庭照常）或干预组（除了毒品法庭照常）。干预组的参与者将完成一个五模块干预，该干预基于一项已完成的就业干预随机对照试验，该试验的重点是获得、维持和提升就业。3个月后将进行随访。该项目的总体目标是利用一项有希望的随机对照试验的结果，将其调整用于互联网，并测试其对失业男女吸毒者的有效性。具体目标是：（1）调整现有的，有效的就业干预失业毒品法庭参与者的互联网交付作为基于Web的干预;（2）评估基于Web的干预对就业结果（就业状况，工作天数，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的影响的调节作用。