Examining the effectiveness of the Gateway conditional caution on health and well-being of young adults committing low-level offences: a randomised controlled trial

Conclusions
Gateway is the first trial in a UK police setting to have a health-related primary outcome requiring individual data collection, rather than focusing solely on recidivism. We demonstrated that it is possible to recruit and randomise from the study population, however follow-up rates were low. Further work is needed to identify ways to facilitate engagement between researchers and vulnerable populations to collect data.

Trial registration number
ISRCTN11888938.

Source: BMJ Open - April 25, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mitchell, A., Booth, A., Morgan, S., Walker, I., Chapman, C., Barlow-Pay, M., Cochrane, A., Filby, E., Fleming, J., Hewitt, C., Raftery, J., Torgerson, D., Weir, L., Parkes, J. Tags: Open access, Public health Source Type: research