Community Wise: An Innovative Multi-Level Intervention to Reduce Alcohol and Illegal Drug Use
Funded by: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparties
Project dates: May 2016 - November 2023
Principal Investigator: Benoit, EllenProject dates: May 2016 - November 2023
Principal Investigator: Windsor LC (contact PI)
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Community Wise is a multilevel intervention to reduce health inequalities related to alcohol and illicit drug use that was developed and pilot-tested in a distressed community with concentrations of African American residents using community-based participatory research methods. The study applied the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) – an innovative and rigorous framework that employs factorial designs – to identify the most efficient, scalable, and sustainable components of Community Wise.
Abstract on NIH RePORTERRelated Publications
Windsor LC, Benoit E, Lee C, Jemal A, Kugler K, Smith DC, Pinto RM, Musaad S (2024). Critical dialogue and capacity-building projects reduced alcohol and substance use in a randomized clinical trial among formerly incarcerated men
Substance Use and Misuse [Epub 2024 Jun 19]. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2024.2352611.
Jemal A, Windsor L, Inyang C, Pierre-Noel C (2022).
The critical dialogue cornerstone: Suggested practices to guide implementation, facilitation and evaluation
Journal of Progressive Human Services, 33 (3), 244-270. doi: 10.1080/10428232.2022.2056866. PMCID: PMC9426411.
Windsor LC, Benoit E, Pinto RM, Gwadz M, Thompson W (2021).
Enhancing behavioral intervention science: Using community-based participatory research principles with the multiphase optimization strategy
Translational Behavioral Medicine, 11 (8), 1596-1605. doi: 10.1093/tbm/ibab032. PMCID: PMC8367018.
Jemal A, Urmey LS, Caliste S (2021).
From sculpting an intervention to healing in action
Social Work with Groups, 44 (3), 226-243. doi: 10.1080/01609513.2020.1757923. PMCID: PMC8411875.
Windsor LC, Benoit E, Smith D, Pinto RM, Kugler KC (2018).
Optimizing a community-engaged multi-level group intervention to reduce substance use: An application of the multiphase optimization strategy
Trials, 19 (1), 255. doi: 10.1186/s13063-018-2624-5. PMCID: PMC5921441.
Windsor LC, Jemal A, Benoit E (2014).
Community Wise: Paving the way for empowerment in community reentry
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 37 (5), 501-511. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2014.02.023. PMCID: PMC4142095.
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