Enhancing Housing First Programs With a Social Network Substance Use Intervention
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Alcohol Drinking, Drug Abuse, HIV
In brief
Housing First programs are promising approaches to transitioning substance using chronically homeless adults to affordable housing. However, Housing First programs need to provide support to residents to adjust to their changing social environments. The proposed project fulfills a critical gap by developing an electronic tool for a social network intervention using motivational interviewing techniques as well as results of a pilot test of the tool. The hypothesis to be tested is that Housing First residents who are given the intervention will be significantly more motivated to change their drinking, drug use, sexual risk behaviors, and social networks compared to controls receiving usual care.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02140359
- Run by
- RAND
- People needed
- 50
- Starts
- 2015-06-01
- Expected to finish
- 2017-07-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-11-24
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- New residents of Skid Row Housing Trust receiving permanent supportive housing
You may not qualify if…
- Age younger than 18
- Does not speak English
- Cognitively impaired either by identifying those having a diagnosis of dementia in the new resident intake interview or using the Short Blessed Scale Exam)
- Does not screen positive for past -year harmful AOD use using the AUDIT-C (a score > 4 for men and > 3 for women) and DAST (a score greater than 2).
Where it is running
- Skid Row Housing Trust — Los Angeles, California, United States
- RAND Corporation — Santa Monica, California, United States
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