Qualitative Study on a Psychoeducation Group for Juvenile Sex Offenders

NCT06100094 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: IRB-MTP_2023_09_202301455
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 20
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Some sexual violence is committed by minors but how to take care of them ? Despite heterogeneous profiles, some characteristics are common in these adolescents and can be used in psychoeducation group. CRIAVS-LR team has therefore decided to create a psychoeducation group on emotional and sexual life specific for this population of young adult/adolescents in order to improve their skills and find alternative solutions to violence, particularly in the area of sexual violence The qualitative aspect of this study would make it possible to provide data in this still little explored field, to try to understand the experience of the young people participating in this group and to improve its structure and content so that it reaches best its goals.

Conditions

Sex Offense

Keywords

juvenile sex offenders; support group; psychoeducation; paraphilia; pedophilic interest; sexual violence

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• The feelings of patients who participated on a psychoeducation group

  One Guided Interview : The analysis of the interviews uses a phenomenological method aimed at bringing out data from the lived experience collected in the verbatims, each representing an aspect of the phenomenon studied. The raw data will be prepared in a word document. After a division into units of meaning and thematization by an inductive coding procedure using classificatory logic, the analysis consists of identifying the relevant elements in relation to the research question and in particular in relation to the chosen indicators. These different indicators will constitute an a priori analysis grid. They will be distributed in the different "boxes" previously established concerning the chosen indicators. Apart from these a priori indicators, concepts not planned in advance will be reported Patient's expectations before the group, description of the lived experience, emotions felt between two sessions, group description, patient's feed back after their participation.

  At the end of the 10 sessions (week 10) of the psychoeducation group

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Socio-demographic data

  At the end of the 10 sessions (week 10) of the psychoeducation group

Study Arms (1)

juvenile sex offender psychoeducation group

The psychoeducation group consists of 10 sessions of approximately 1.5 hours each, once a week or every two weeks depending on the availability of the therapists. Among the sessions, 9 correspond to a specific theme: reminder of the law and violence, sexism, consent, control, social pressure, self-control, empathy, seduction and romantic relationships, sex under the influence. The last session is devoted to a resumption of all the themes previously discussed. Semi-structured qualitative interviews addressing their feelings regarding the psychoeducation group, what they learned from it, what they had difficulty with.

Other: semi-structured qualitative interviews

Interventions

semi-structured qualitative interviews OTHER

During the interview, a list of semi-open questions will be asked : * What were your expectations/state of mind before the group? * How would you describe your experience overall? * If you had to describe the group how would you do it? * Between two group sessions, how did it go for you? * What do you think of the group ultimately? Interviews will be carried out until data saturation. Collection of socio-demographic data (age), medical history and criminal history in the patient's file

juvenile sex offender psychoeducation group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 14 Years - 20 Years
• Sex: male
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Juvenile sex offenders

You may qualify if:

• patient aged 14 to 20
• commit a sexual offense
• takes part to CRIAVS-LR psychoeducation group

You may not qualify if:

• severe intellectual disability, decompensated psychiatric disease
• Illiterate or unable to understand the purpose and methodology of the study
• Patient not affiliated to a French social security scheme or not a beneficiary of such a scheme
• Person unable to give consent
• Refusal of consent after information
• Adult protected by law (guardianship, curatorship)
• Person under psychiatric care

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University Hospital, Montpellier: lead

Study Sites (1)

UH MONTPELLIER - La Colombiere CRIAVS

Montpellier, 34295, France

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Paraphilic Disorders

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• celine BAIS, Ph

  University Hospital, Montpellier

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Central Study Contacts

magali teillard, psychologist

CONTACT

0467338577; m-teillard_dirat@chu-montpellier.fr

celine BAIS, Ph

CONTACT

0467338677; c-bais@chu-montpellier.fr

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 10, 2023
• First Posted: October 25, 2023
• Study Start: September 29, 2023
• Primary Completion: September 1, 2024
• Study Completion: September 1, 2024
• Last Updated: October 25, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-10

Locations

FR (1)