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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Trauma Anxiety Disorders Anxiety and Fear Behavior Behavioral Symptoms Depression Mental Disorders Wounds and Injuries

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

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.

Exclusion criteria

The exclusion criteria are those not meeting the study's inclusion criteria.

Treatment and study plan

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.

Government Media Intervention

Other

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

Primary outcomes

Trauma Screening Questionnaire

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

Change in traumatic experience is being assessed

Change in traumatic experience is being assessed Change in traumatic experience is being assessed
Belief in Redeemability Scale v2

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

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

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

Change in service satisfaction is being assessed

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

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CONTACT

[email protected]

07831 163 474

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Teesside University

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Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2023
Primary completion: 2024
Study completion: 2026
First posted: Nov 14, 2022
Registry last updated: Nov 23, 2022

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