Intervention to Reduce Safety Behaviors

VA Office of Research and Development

Status: Completed

Conditions: Social Anxiety

Treatments: Other: DSB-I

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT05996419

D4401-P

121RX004401-01-A1 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Social anxiety is associated with significant deficits in social and occupational functioning. The proposed study seeks to evaluate the feasibility of implementing a brief text-based intervention for decreasing social anxiety related safety behaviors among Veterans attempting to re-integrate into the workforce. Findings from this pilot will support a larger randomized controlled study examining the efficacy of the intervention for improving functional outcomes and quality of life among Veterans.

Enrollment: 23 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Active enrollment in Compensated Work Therapy
• Score of > 25 on the Social Phobia Inventory
• Score of > 47 on the Subtle Avoidance Frequency Examination

Exclusion criteria

• Concurrent enrollment in another study related to social anxiety or improving functional status
• Recent (<3 month) history of psychiatric hospitalization, detoxification admission, or suicide attempt

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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23 participants in 1 patient group

DSB-Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Active intervention group receives text message intervention via ANNIE for 30 days

Treatment:

Other: DSB-I