Art as Healing: A Community-informed Art-based Programme (CiAbP) for Reintegrating Ex-offenders Into Society in Nigeria

NCT05614687 | Not Yet Recruiting DMC

• 1 other identifier: 0000-0003-0516-0313b
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The goal of this pilot experimental study is to test a community-informed art-based programme in improving community members trauma from crime and to aid the reintegration of ex-offenders into society. The main question it aims to answer are: • What is the feasibility in terms of recruitment, retention, adherence to the intervention and communities/victims' satisfaction with CiAbP to promote healing and improve the successful reintegration of ex-offenders into society? Participants will be randomly allocated into two groups. The first group, the intervention group, will receive the Community-informed Art-based programme (CiAbP). The second group will receive government intervention involving media messages from the National Orientation Agency devoid of CiAbP. The CiAbP. sessions will cover relevant aspects of art, such as photo story, story telling, poetry, and drawing in tackling trauma and negative attitudes towards ex-offenders reintegration. Researchers will compare CiAbP group with the media orientation group to see if there are differences between a change in attitude towards ex-offenders' reintegration at base line, end of intervention and three months follow up.

Conditions

Trauma; Depression; Anxiety and Fear

Keywords

Trauma; Anxiety and Fear

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Trauma Screening Questionnaire

  Change in traumatic experience is being assessed Change in traumatic experience is being assessed Change in traumatic experience is being assessed

  Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention

• Belief in Redeemability Scale v2

  Change in of attitude towards ex-offenders' reintegration is being assessed

  Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention

• Service Satisfaction Scale

  Change in service satisfaction is being assessed

  Change is being assessed at baseline, at 12 weeks end of intervention, at 3-months post-intervention

Study Arms (2)

Community-informed art-based programme (CiAbP)

EXPERIMENTAL

The CiAbP sessions will cover relevant aspects of art, such as poetry, spoken words, painting, drawing, literature, and music, in tackling trauma and negative attitudes towards ex-offenders reintegration.

Behavioral: Community-informed art-based programme

Government intervention involving media messages

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

It will involve media messages from the National Orientation Agency devoid of CiAbP and other media sources on materials such as health and public awareness.

Other: Government Media Intervention

Interventions

Community-informed art-based programme BEHAVIORAL

The Community-informed art-based programme is an intervention incorporating art in the form of for example poetry and drawings in addressing trauma and encouraging community attitudes towards the positive reintegration of ex-offenders.

Community-informed art-based programme (CiAbP)

Government Media Intervention OTHER

Government Media Intervention involving media content from the National Orientation Agency and other media sources

Government intervention involving media messages

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Community members with previous experience of trauma
• Aged 18+ years and are residents in areas including Lagos/Delta states and its environs.
• Able to give informed consent,
• Speak the English language,
• Able to partake in baseline, pre-, post- and three-month follow-up data collection.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Teesside University: lead

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Wounds and Injuries; Depression; Anxiety Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior; Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Tarela Ike, Dr

  Teesside University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

T Ike

CONTACT

07831 163 474; t.ike@tees.ac.uk

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Dr

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 5, 2022
• First Posted: November 14, 2022
• Study Start: September 1, 2023
• Primary Completion: December 31, 2024
• Study Completion (Estimated): August 30, 2026
• Last Updated: November 23, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share