Making Change Meaningful for Prisoner Survivors of Sexual Assault
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Making Change Meaningful for Prisoner Survivors of Sexual Assault
IRAS ID
307211
Contact name
David Gadd
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Manchester
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
n/a, n/a
Duration of Study in the UK
3 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
The project will model change among male prisoners who have previously been sexually assaulted as children, as adults in the community or within custodial sentences. It will work alongside a pioneering intervention, the OUT Spoken therapy programme, that helps prisoner survivors of sexual assault rebuild their lives and overcome the damage of abuse that has contributed to their offending behaviour: directly through psychological trauma, or indirectly, by severing relationships with partners and families, or by imposing stigma and social exclusion. Narrative interviews would be undertake at three time points with a sample of 50 prisoners to capture what change means for them. Prisoners will be asked for their consent to access their scores on depression, anxiety and trauma inventories - already routinely collated in therapy- for the purposes of comparison with the narrative interviews.
REC name
North West - Greater Manchester East Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
22/NW/0035
Date of REC Opinion
24 Mar 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion