National Guard Outreach and Linkage to Treatment
Completed
Conditions studied: PTSD, Depression, Reintegration, Veterans Health
In brief
This project will add an evaluation/research component to an existing peer outreach program, now implemented for over 1100 soldiers in the Michigan Army National Guard. Preliminary work will be completed in three areas. We will conduct semi-structured interviews with soldiers, Buddies, and National Guard leadership and develop and pilot test survey items relevant to implementation. Further, we will develop and pretest survey items relevant to determining soldier symptomatic and functional status. We will also conduct a small feasibility study, fielding the newly developed survey to a representative sample of recently returned National Guard members from Michigan and Indiana, to determine response rates and veteran willingness to allow access to linkable PDHA/PDHRA data and health services data. Finally, we will construct a merged, de-identified longitudinal dataset comprised of Post-Deployment Health Assessment and Reassessment data, Military Health System/TRICARE, and VA services data from National Guard soldiers in Michigan and comparison states of Indiana and Ohio. This will allow a longitudinal assessment of services initiation and retention for the entire Guard populations in these states.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01020981
- Run by
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
- People needed
- 141
- Starts
- 2010-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2011-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-04-28
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Returning MI ARNG member participating in the Buddy-to-Buddy program
You may not qualify if…
- None
Where it is running
- VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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