Impact of Stress First Aid for Workers in Substance Misuse Settings (SFA-Impact)

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Occupational Health

Treatments: Behavioral: Stress First Aid for Harm Reduction Workers (SFA/HRW)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT07177014

R61DA059887 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

STUDY00008024

Details and patient eligibility

About

Test the effectiveness of SFA adapted for the harm reduction workforce (SFA/HRW) compared to a no treatment control condition on social-support and burnout of HRWs in a cluster-randomized hybrid type I trial.

Enrollment: 500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• At least 18 years of age
• Employed in a paid role as a harm reduction worker or community health/outreach worker (whose work includes harm reduction) with people who use drugs within TX, LA, AR, OK, NM and tribal areas
• Able and willing to provide informed consent

Exclusion criteria

- Inability to provide consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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500 participants in 2 patient groups

No Treatment

No Intervention group

Description:

Control: No Treatment

Stress First Aid for Harm Reduction Workers

Experimental group

Description:

Treatment group receives Stress First Aid for Harm Reduction Workers, a 2-hour training and up to six virtual 30-minute monthly learning collaborative meetings.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stress First Aid for Harm Reduction Workers (SFA/HRW)