Study for the Employment Retention of Veterans (SERVe)

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Well-Being; Workplace Outcomes; Health Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Veteran Supportive Supervisor Training; Other: Waitlist Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT03085953

W81XWH-13-2-0020

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Study for Employment Retention of Veterans (SERVe) is a randomized controlled trial, available exclusively to Oregon employers of veterans. It is designed to develop and scientifically evaluate Veteran-supportive supervisor training (VSST) that may enhance retention of veterans, with the goal of improving workplace culture and general well-being to our service members. The intervention, applied to workplace supervisors, will be measured by experience of veterans, assessing workplace experiences, health, well-being, as well as employees' spouse/partners' family experiences, health and well-being, and workplace outcomes.

Full description

The overall goal of the Study for Employment Retention of Veterans (SERVe) study is to improve health and well-being of current and former service members employed in participating Oregon organizations. The SERVe Study seeks to do this by training supervisors to support veteran employees by focusing on a reduction in work-life stress while increasing supportive supervisor behavior.

The SERVe Study proposes that supervisor supportiveness can influence workplace experience, health, and well-being of service members, as well as of their families.

The investigators of the SERVe Study expect positive results for study participants, including reduced stress and increased social support, reduction in negative workplace experiences, and improvement in family well-being outcomes. Longer term, these effects are expected to create a more supportive work environment, which has positive effects on safety, health, well-being, family, and organizational outcomes.

Veteran participants are measured at baseline, three months, and nine months. Veteran spouses are invited to participate as well. Married and cohabitating veterans and their partners are invited to participate in the Daily Family Study (DFS), a 32-day daily diary survey after baseline and at six months.

Enrollment: 511 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Must have served in the United States Armed Forces since September, 2001
• Must work at least 20 hours per week at a participating organization

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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511 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental: Supervisor Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Supervisors in the intervention group will go through the Veteran Supervisor Supportiveness Training.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Veteran Supportive Supervisor Training

Waitlist Control Group

Other group

Description:

Supervisors will receive intervention following all measurement points, to serve as a waitlist control comparison group

Treatment:

Other: Waitlist Control