Social Network Overdose Prevention and Education Intervention
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Network overdose prevention, Standard of care health education.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Drug Overdose. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
A Social Diffusion Fatal Overdose Prevention Intervention: Assessing the Effectiveness of People Who Use Opioids as Peer Educators in Training Using & Non-using Networks on Overdose & Stigma Reduction
Overview
The purpose of this study is to test a social intervention focused on overdose prevention and care. In the investigators prior work, the investigators have shown that people who use opioids (PWUO) can be effective peer educators (PEs).
Detailed description
The purpose of this study is to test a social intervention focused on overdose prevention and care. In the investigators prior work, the investigators have shown that people who use opioids (PWUO) can be effective peer educators (PEs). The investigators have utilized PEs for overdose prevention in interventions that have focused on training network members who use drugs to respond to an overdose. Yet, many overdoses are witnessed by people who do not use drugs. Additionally, many PWUO report using drugs at home and living with someone who does not use drugs, which highlights the importance of training non-using network members on overdose response. Based on pilot data, the investigators propose expanding an overdose peer education intervention to focus on non-using network members. The intervention seeks to prepare network members to respond to an overdose and normalize discussions about overdose prevention planning between index PWUO and non-using network members. The intervention condition consists of 3 individual sessions focused on overdose prevention and response. This condition is designed to train index study participants to be Peer Educators. In addition to the three sessions, the non-drug using network member will be offered one session. The control condition is only 1 session focused on overdose prevention and response. Both intervention and control participants will invite social network members to take part in data collection activities
Interventions
- Behavioral Network overdose prevention
Participants are taught overdose prevention methods with network members. - Behavioral Standard of care health education
Participants will receive the standard of care for overdose prevention.
Primary outcome measures
- Number of drug overdoses [Time frame: 3-months]
- Participant drug use [Time frame: 3-months]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Number of Network member contacts [Time frame: 3-months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- self-reported illicit opioid use at least 2 times in the past two weeks;
- age 18 and older;
- living in the Baltimore metropolitan region;
- willing to engage in peer education; and
- having and willing to recruit at least one non-using network member.
Exclusion criteria
Participants without the cognitive ability to provide informed consent and have the physical ability to participate in in-person intervention sessions.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health — Baltimore
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06327061 · IRB00026607 · R01DA058659