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Project VALOR: Veteran Stress and Wellbeing

C

Cornell University

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Depression
Alcohol Use Disorder

Treatments

Behavioral: Internet Delivered Brief Intervention (IDBI)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06095817
Smithers2023

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will examine the efficacy of an internet-based brief intervention designed to reduce risky behavior veterans as the move into their second year post-Army. Up to 350 veterans drawn from The Network Study (Dept of Defense; Award number: W81XWH1920001) will be recruited with the intention of drawing a final sample of 300. Study participants will be randomly assigned to either the intervention or the control group, stratified by age and gender.

Full description

The combination of alcohol use and negative emotional states is a particularly toxic combination for suicide risk. The current study examines changes in alcohol/drug use/misuse and depression as veterans transition further into their post-Army environment and offers a personalized internet-based brief intervention intended to prevent/reduce alcohol misuse and depression in this population.

The study's objectives are to empirically quantify the form of changes that occur with respect to alcohol use and depression as veterans move into their second year post-Army; to identify stable individual risk factors (e.g., personality, military experiences) and dynamic risk factors (e.g., changes in stressors and normative contexts over time) that may be associated with differential temporal patterns of suicide-related behavior (i.e., alcohol use/misuse) and cognition (i.e., depression); and lastly, to determine whether a simple, internet-delivered brief intervention shown can reduce risky behavior in the veteran population.

Enrollment

140 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 62 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Is US Army veteran who participated in The Network Study (Dept of Defense; Award number: W81XWH1920001)
  • Seeks/engages in civilian employment
  • Lives in US

Exclusion criteria

  • Retired with no plans to seek civilian employment
  • Living outside of the US
  • Separated from the National Guard or Reserves

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

140 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Condition
Experimental group
Description:
Participants assigned to the intervention condition will be invited to engage with an internet-based intervention at the start of the study (12 months following their separation) * Half of those in the intervention condition will have already received two prior IDBIs (as part of the DoD funded study) within the first 6 months of separation. * The other half of those in the intervention condition will have received no prior IDBIs.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Internet Delivered Brief Intervention (IDBI)
Control
No Intervention group
Description:
The control group will not be offered this month-12 internet-based intervention. * Half of those in the control condition will have received two earlier IDBIs (as part of the DoD funded study) within the first 6 months of their separation. * The other half of those in the control condition will have received no prior IDBIs.

Trial contacts and locations

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