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NCT Number: NCT06126926

Tertiary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Child Sexual Abuse

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

Male

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55414, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Male
  • 18 or older
  • Serving time in MnDOC facilities for Criminal Sexual Conduct in the first, second, or third degree, whose victims were less than 14 years old
  • Individuals assigned moderate to high risk to reoffend as determined upon entrance to the Minnesota Correctional System by the DOC Risk Assessment/Community Notification Unit."

Exclusion criteria

  • Diagnosed with an active, uncontrolled major mental disorder (e.g. bi-polar, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, major depression with psychotic features)
  • Unable to read English at the 5th grade level
  • Unable to speak English
  • IQ of less than 85 as measured by standard intelligence tests
  • Diagnosis of intellectual disability
  • Engaged in violent behavior while incarcerated, as indicated by disciplinary actions and/or segregation within 60 days of intake"

Treatment and study plan

Group Therapy

Behavioral

32 weeks of group therapy

Treatment as Usual

Other

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.

Primary outcomes

  1. Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offense Version (VRS:SO)

    Time frame: 7 days post-intervention

    Clinician rating scale. 24-items measuring likelihood of sexual offense recidivism using a 4 point scale.

  2. Coping Using Sex Inventory (CUSI)

    Time frame: 7 days post-intervention

    Self-report scale. 16 items measuring consensual, non-consensual, and child-focused sexual coping strategies using a 5-point scale

  3. Compulsive Sexual Behavior Inventory-13 (CSBI-13)

    Time frame: 7-days post-intervention

    Self-report scale. 13 item scale measuring the presence of compulsive sexual behaviors on a 5- point scale.

  4. Types of Jealousy Scale (3 subscales; reactive, preventive, and anxious jealousy)

    Time frame: 7 days post-intervention

    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.

  5. Faith in People Scale

    Time frame: 7 days post-intervention

    Self-report scale. 5 item scale measuring attitudes toward human nature. Two forced- choice items and three agreement/disagreement items.

  6. Trust in People Scale (Survey Research Center)

    Time frame: 7 days post-intervention

    Self-report scale. 3 item scale measuring perception of general trustworthiness of others.

  7. Aggression Questionnaire (AQ; Buss &amp) - Physical Aggression, Verbal Aggression, and Anger Subscales ONLY

    Time frame: 7 days post-intervention

    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.

  8. Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale (R-UCLA)

    Time frame: 7 days post-intervention

    Self-report scale. 20 items measuring subjective feelings of loneliness and social isolation on a 4 point scale.

  9. Self-Critical Rumination Scale (SCRS)

    Time frame: 7 days post-intervention

    Self-report scale. 10 items measuring self- criticism on a 4 point scale.

  10. External/Internal Shame Scale - Sense of Isolation/Exclusion Subscale ONLY (EISS)

    Time frame: 7 days post-intervention

    Self-report scale. Measures perceived sense of exclusion and being isolated or misunderstood by people on a 5 point scale.

  11. Children and Sex Questionnaire Emotional Congruence Scale (CSQ:ECWC)

    Time frame: 7 days post-intervention

    Self-report scale. 15 item scale measuring emotional congruence with children on a 5 point scale.

  12. The Openness to Men and Women Scales (OPM, OPWO)

    Time frame: 7 days post-intervention

    Self-report scale. 18 items assessing openness to intimacy with women and men on a 4 point scale.

  13. Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale - Short Form (DERS-SF)

    Time frame: 7 days post-intervention

    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.

  14. Coping Strategy Indicator (CSI)

    Time frame: 7 days post-intervention

    Self-report scale. 33 items measuring adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies (avoidance, problem-solving, social support seeking) on a 3 point scale.

  15. Aggression Inventory (AI)- Impulsive, Impatient, and Avoid subscales ONLY

    Time frame: 7 days post-intervention

    Self-report scale. 22 item scale measuring perceptions and use of aggressive behaviors for men a women on a 5 point scale.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Group Climate Questionnaire - Short Form (GCQ-5)

    Time frame: Every 14 days for first two months, than every four weeks for next four months

    Self-report scale. 12 items measuring group perceptions of the group therapeutic environment on a 7 point scale.

  2. Curative Climate Instrument (CCI)

    Time frame: Every 14 days for first two months, than every four weeks for next four months

    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.

  3. Treatment Motivation Questionnaire-Revised (TMQ-R)

    Time frame: Every 14 days for first two months, than every four weeks for next four months

    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.

  4. Therapeutic Agency Inventory (TAI)

    Time frame: Every 14 days for first two months, than every four weeks for next four months

    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.

  5. Relationship Questionnaire (RQ)

    Time frame: Every 14 days for first two months, than every four weeks for next four months

    Self-report scale. 4 items measuring adult attachment style on a 7 point scale.

  6. Working Alliance Inventory - Short Form (WAI- SR)

    Time frame: Every 14 days for first two months, than every four weeks for next four months

    Self-report scale. 12 items measuring three domains of the therapeutic alliance: goals, tasks, and bond on a 5 point scale.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Minnesota

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Mobilizing Evidence Into Tertiary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse: A Pilot Study

Important dates

Study start
2024
Primary completion
2025
Study completion
2025
First posted
Nov 13, 2023
Registry last updated
Jan 7, 2026

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