This pilot study evaluates the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of a new crisis response training called Crisis Ready.
The study team conducted formative work to develop a new crisis response training for people involved in a law-enforcement assisted diversion program. The training, called Crisis Ready, combines an intervention that aims to promote use of 988 with a training on the use of Naloxone to reverse and overdose. The pilot aims to collect quantitative and qualitative data about the perceptions of the training among program participants and program staff.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
23
Crisis Ready Training combines Crisis Line Facilitation with Take Home Naloxone training. The intervention is delivered in a group format.
Baltimore Crisis Response, Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Acceptability of Intervention Measure
Participants' perspectives of the likability of the intervention. Scores range from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating higher levels of acceptability.
Time frame: Immediately following the intervention
Intervention Appropriateness Measure
Measures the fit of the intervention for the population. Scores range from 1 to 5 with higher scores indicating higher levels of appropriateness.
Time frame: Immediately following the intervention
Knowledge and Perceptions of 988
Measures participants' knowledge about the 988 crisis line and comfort using 988 for themselves or others. Participants report whether or not they heard of 988 before the training. Participants rate their level of comfort utilizing 988 for themselves or others on a scale from 0 to 10 with higher scores indicating higher levels of comfort.
Time frame: Immediately before and immediately after the intervention
Knowledge and Attitudes about Narcan
Measures participants' knowledge of the overdose reversal effects of Narcan and where to get Narcan. Participants also rate their level of comfort carrying and using Narcan in a variety of circumstances; scores range from 0 to 10 with higher scores indicating higher levels of comfort.
Time frame: Immediately before and after the intervention
Access to a phone
Author developed assessment of whether or not participants have access to a phone
Time frame: Immediately after the intervention.
Perceptions of the Crisis Ready Training
Author developed qualitative assessment of perceptions of training. The measure asks, (1) "What did you like most about this training?", (2) "What else would you have liked to hear about or do in this training?", (3) "Is there anything else you would like us to know?"
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Time frame: Immediately after the training