Women's Initiative Supporting Health Increasing Healthcare Access

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Conditions studied: Substance-Related Disorders

In brief

Women recently released (RR women) from incarceration constitute a vulnerable group characterized by high rates of untreated HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), substance use disorder (SUD), mental health (MH) disorders and trauma. This interconnected syndemic requires helping RR women to overcome multiple internal and structural care barriers. This R34 builds on work conducted by the PI in a NIDA-funded K23 project, in which an intervention called Women's Initiative Supporting Health (WISH) was developed to improve RR women's engagement in HIV, Hepatitis C (HCV), and primary medical care using Self Determination Theory (SDT). The proposed R34 project, a natural extension of this prior work, will conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the WISH intervention to examine feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02964845

Run by

University of Rochester

People needed

82

Starts

2017-01-13

Expected to finish

2019-07-31

Last updated by the study team

2019-12-02

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• English-speaking
• >18 years old female by birth biologically
• Any HIV risk and SUD in the year prior (adjusting for incarceration during which they may have had fewer HIV risk behaviors and less access to drugs or alcohol)
• HIV/HCV negative
• Released from incarceration within the prior 1 year or to be released within 2 weeks
• Agree to release all medical/mental health/SUD treatment records for research access
• Agree to become a patient at Highland Family Medicine for primary care

You may not qualify if…

• Non-English speaking
• < 18 year old
• Not biologically female
• Score <2 on the Six-Item Screener (derived from the Mini-Mental Status Examination )
• Decline HIV/HCV assessment.
• Refusal to obtain primary medical care from Highland Family Medicine.
• The inability to speak or comprehend English with sufficient skill to give consent or understand interviewers.
• Apparent intoxication; psychotic behavior or the presence of severe illness or pain that interferes with participation as determined with exclusion criteria score < 2 on the Six-Item Screener

Where it is running

• University of Rochester — Rochester, New York, United States

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