SCI-VIP: Predictive Outcome Model Over Time for Employment (PrOMOTE)
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Spinal Cord Injuries
In brief
This study will be an extension of the Spinal Cord Injury Vocational Integration Program (SCI-VIP). The study involves research about how to help Veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI) gain employment. Vocational rehabilitation is a special field of service aimed at putting persons with disabilities in the best possible position to become employed. The Veterans Administration has a long history of providing vocational rehabilitation for Veterans with mental health issues and has recently started providing similar services to persons with physical disabilities, including SCI. Past research has shown that vocational rehabilitation is effective in helping some Veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI) gain employment. The extension of this work through PrOMOTE study will establish a large national database of over 2000 Veterans with SCI, containing extensive employment, medical, functional and psychosocial data. The study will analyze both quantitative and qualitative measures to maximize its findings.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01141647
- Run by
- VA Office of Research and Development
- People needed
- 1047
- Starts
- 2011-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2015-03-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-05-11
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- All Veterans who meet inclusion criteria will be approached about completing a baseline interview to gather information on employment, health, and quality of life after spinal cord injury.
- Inclusion criteria for the baseline interview include:
- 18 to 65 years old
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Medically and neurologically stable
- At the end of the baseline interview, some of these Veterans who meet additional inclusion criteria will be enrolled to receive the SE intervention or other available vocational services and complete longitudinal follow-up interviews every three months while participating in the study.
- The additional inclusion criteria for enrollment in vocational services include:
- Unemployed
- Living within 100 mile radius of the enrolling VA Medical Center
- Desiring competitive employment
- A subsample of Veterans who consent to the study will be selected for participation in qualitative interviews. Family members and/or caregivers identified by these Veterans may also be included in qualitative interviews. A representative sample of VA staff members who provide care to these Veterans will also be approached to participate in qualitative interviews.
You may not qualify if…
- Medically and/or surgically unstable
- Mentally impaired such that independent reasoning and judgment jeopardize safety of self or others
- Active alcohol and/or drug dependency that is untreated
Where it is running
- VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA — Palo Alto, California, United States
- James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL — Tampa, Florida, United States
- VA Boston Healthcare System Jamaica Plain Campus, Jamaica Plain, MA — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- VA Medical Center, Cleveland — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- VA North Texas Health Care System Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX — Dallas, Texas, United States
- Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (152) — Houston, Texas, United States
- Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, VA — Richmond, Virginia, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.