Telephone Case Monitoring (TCM) for Veterans With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

In brief

The purpose of this study is to test whether providing PTSD patients additional support by telephone (in addition to usual outpatient care) after they discharge from residential treatment improves those patients' outcomes and keeps them out of the hospital longer.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00288860

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

837

Starts

2006-10-01

Expected to finish

2011-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-04-25

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients with a PTSD diagnosis entering PTSD residential treatment with an intended length of stay of 15 days or longer (patients in brief evaluation or acute stabilization tracks will not be included, as their discharge plan may include readmission to residential treatment within a few months).

You may not qualify if…

• Patients discharging from residential treatment within four days of admission(insufficient time to consent and assess them);
• Active Duty military personnel;
• Patients transferred from residential care to an inpatient medical unit due to emergent medical problems;
• Patients with traumatic brain injury or other organic impairment that compromises capacity to consent.

Where it is running

• Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center, Little Rock, AR — No. Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
• VA Medical Center, Battle Creek — Battle Creek, Michigan, United States
• VA Western New York Healthcare System, Buffalo, NY — Buffalo, New York, United States
• VA Medical Center, Coatesville — Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
• VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Tacoma — Tacoma, Washington, United States

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