This is a feasibility study designed to inform the development of a multinational study of the effectiveness of a tertiary prevention program for child sexual abuse. This study targets adult men who have engaged in child sexual abuse, and will be implemented within the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Data will include measures of the implementation process, short-terms changes in criminogenic factors, and staff and participant factors that could influence outcomes.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
10
32 weeks of group therapy
Control participants remain in their current placement and may be eligible for a number of services offered to inmates to facilitate rehabilitation and planning for release to the community, including sexual offender treatment. MnDOC's sexual offender treatment is a two to three year program, thus most of our control subjects will not have enough time remaining on their sentences to complete such treatment. However, a number of them may participate in MnDOC's current program.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offense Version (VRS:SO)
Clinician rating scale. 24-items measuring likelihood of sexual offense recidivism using a 4 point scale.
Time frame: 7 days post-intervention
Coping Using Sex Inventory (CUSI)
Self-report scale. 16 items measuring consensual, non-consensual, and child-focused sexual coping strategies using a 5-point scale
Time frame: 7 days post-intervention
Compulsive Sexual Behavior Inventory-13 (CSBI-13)
Self-report scale. 13 item scale measuring the presence of compulsive sexual behaviors on a 5- point scale.
Time frame: 7-days post-intervention
Types of Jealousy Scale (3 subscales; reactive, preventive, and anxious jealousy)
Self-report scale. 15 items measuring the intensity of reactive jealousy, experience and use of preventive jealousy, and frequency of anxious jealousy on a 5-point scale.
Time frame: 7 days post-intervention
Faith in People Scale
Self-report scale. 5 item scale measuring attitudes toward human nature. Two forced- choice items and three agreement/disagreement items.
Time frame: 7 days post-intervention
Trust in People Scale (Survey Research Center)
Self-report scale. 3 item scale measuring perception of general trustworthiness of others.
Time frame: 7 days post-intervention
Aggression Questionnaire (AQ; Buss &) - Physical Aggression, Verbal Aggression, and Anger Subscales ONLY
Self-report scale. 21 items throughout the 3 subscales measuring how characteristic physical aggression, verbal aggression, and anger-related behaviors are for respondents on a 7 point scale.
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Time frame: 7 days post-intervention
Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale (R-UCLA)
Self-report scale. 20 items measuring subjective feelings of loneliness and social isolation on a 4 point scale.
Time frame: 7 days post-intervention
Self-Critical Rumination Scale (SCRS)
Self-report scale. 10 items measuring self- criticism on a 4 point scale.
Time frame: 7 days post-intervention
External/Internal Shame Scale - Sense of Isolation/Exclusion Subscale ONLY (EISS)
Self-report scale. Measures perceived sense of exclusion and being isolated or misunderstood by people on a 5 point scale.
Time frame: 7 days post-intervention
Children and Sex Questionnaire Emotional Congruence Scale (CSQ:ECWC)
Self-report scale. 15 item scale measuring emotional congruence with children on a 5 point scale.
Time frame: 7 days post-intervention
The Openness to Men and Women Scales (OPM, OPWO)
Self-report scale. 18 items assessing openness to intimacy with women and men on a 4 point scale.
Time frame: 7 days post-intervention
Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale - Short Form (DERS-SF)
Self-report scale. 18 items measuring problems with emotion regulation including subscales for strategies, non-acceptance, impulse, goals, awareness, and clarity on a 5 point scale.
Time frame: 7 days post-intervention
Coping Strategy Indicator (CSI)
Self-report scale. 33 items measuring adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies (avoidance, problem-solving, social support seeking) on a 3 point scale.
Time frame: 7 days post-intervention
Aggression Inventory (AI)- Impulsive, Impatient, and Avoid subscales ONLY
Self-report scale. 22 item scale measuring perceptions and use of aggressive behaviors for men a women on a 5 point scale.
Time frame: 7 days post-intervention
Group Climate Questionnaire - Short Form (GCQ-5)
Self-report scale. 12 items measuring group perceptions of the group therapeutic environment on a 7 point scale.
Time frame: Every 14 days for first two months, than every four weeks for next four months
Curative Climate Instrument (CCI)
Self-report scale. 14 items measuring specific change processes perceived as helpful to individual group members (catharsis, insight, and cohesiveness) on a 5 point scale.
Time frame: Every 14 days for first two months, than every four weeks for next four months
Treatment Motivation Questionnaire-Revised (TMQ-R)
Self-report scale. 23 items measuring internal and external reasons for participating in treatment, motivations relating to connecting and sharing with others, and clients' potential lack of confidence in treatment on a 7 point scale.
Time frame: Every 14 days for first two months, than every four weeks for next four months
Therapeutic Agency Inventory (TAI)
Self-report scale. 15 items measuring clients' experience of agency in making positive change and ability to take an active role in their therapy on a 5 point scale.
Time frame: Every 14 days for first two months, than every four weeks for next four months
Relationship Questionnaire (RQ)
Self-report scale. 4 items measuring adult attachment style on a 7 point scale.
Time frame: Every 14 days for first two months, than every four weeks for next four months
Working Alliance Inventory - Short Form (WAI- SR)
Self-report scale. 12 items measuring three domains of the therapeutic alliance: goals, tasks, and bond on a 5 point scale.
Time frame: Every 14 days for first two months, than every four weeks for next four months