Military Suicide Research Consortium (MSRC)

VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Suicidal and Self-injurious Behaviour

Treatments: Behavioral: Cognitive therapy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT01502319

COMIRB 11-0304

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Consortium's overall mission can be summarized as follows; each function is developed with the goal of clear military relevance:

1. Produce new scientific knowledge about suicidal behavior in the military that improves mental health outcomes for the investigators men and women in uniform.
2. Use high quality research methods and analyses to address problems in policy and practice that have a direct impact on suicide-related and other mental health outcomes for military personnel.
3. Disseminate Consortium knowledge, information, and findings through a variety of methods appropriate for decision makers, practitioners, and others who are accountable for ensuring the mental health of military personnel. This includes the rapid response function so that queries from decision makers and others to the Consortium are answered with speed and efficiency. Technical assistance and support for decision makers and others is an integral aspect of this Consortium function. This aspect of the Consortium will warehouse knowledge about suicidal behavior in general (e.g., from civilian and international sources as well as from military sources), so that military issues can be informed in a comprehensive manner.
4. Train future leaders in military suicide research through experience within a multi-disciplinary setting for Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars interested in research questions on military suicide of both a basic and applied nature.

Full description

This is a research consortium responsible for the conduct of a wide range of studies, including clinical trials. All clinical trials funded through the consortium will be registered separately.

Enrollment: 5,400 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 17+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• MSRC studies are inclusive of all individuals who are eligible as defined by each study's protocol regardless of age, gender, race or ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and any other demographic characteristics. Measures and treatments are translated and culturally adapted to the extent possible.

Exclusion criteria

• Specific to each investigator's protocol.

Trial design

5,400 participants in 1 patient group

All subjects

Description:

Group/Cohort label is not applicable to this umbrella protocol. The Consortium funds specific research teams who will determine the number of group(s)/cohort(s) relevant to their study.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive therapy