Reintegration: The Role of Spouse Telephone BATTLEMIND Pilot Study

Memphis VA Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Combat Disorders; Support Groups; Military Spouses; Stress Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Telephone support groups

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00870545

PT074804

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will expand the Department of Defense (DoD) one time, face-to-face post deployment BATTLEMIND training for spouses of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) Guard/Reserve service members into year-long, telephone groups focusing on education, skills building and support. The goal is to build spouses' resilience to cope with reintegration, help them serve as a support system for returning service members, and ease the transition for families post-deployment.

Enrollment: 86 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. have a spouse who participated in OEF/OIF and is at least 1 month post-deployment;
2. if not married, must have lived as married for at least one year;
3. live with the service member when not deployed;
4. have been a spouse/significant other throughout the service member's deployment period;
5. and have a telephone.

Exclusion criteria

1. current diagnosis of schizophrenia or other major mental illness;
2. auditory impairment that would make telephone use difficult; or
3. service member refusal of assent for spouse to participate.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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86 participants in 1 patient group

Telephone support

Experimental group

Description:

12 telephone support group sessions based on the letters of the word BATTLEMIND

Treatment:

Behavioral: Telephone support groups