Helping Families Help Veterans With PTSD and Alcohol Abuse: An RCT of VA-CRAFT
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: PTSD, Alcohol Abuse
In brief
This project begins to evaluate the effectiveness of a web-based family outreach tool that is designed to promote treatment engagement among Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or alcohol use disorders (AUDs) but who have not yet engaged in mental health care. The National Center for PTSD has developed an on-line, Veteran-tailored, interactive web tool called VA - Community Reinforcement and Family Training (VA-CRAFT) that trains family members to effectively help their Veterans to engage in treatment for PTSD and/or AUDs. This project will provide preliminary information about VA-CRAFT's effectiveness.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01678196
- Run by
- VA Office of Research and Development
- People needed
- 66
- Starts
- 2013-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2016-04-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-10-25
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Family participants:
- must have participated in a Readiness and Resilience in National Guards Soldiers - (RINGS) study and be a spouse, partner, or family member of a Veteran who has also participated in a RINGS study
- report frequent contact with the Veteran
- be paired with a Veteran who has not received mental health services at VA or in the community for the past 3 months and who has screened positive for PTSD or AUDs
- and have regular access to the internet.
- Veteran participants:
- must have participated in a RINGS study
- be in significant contact with a spouse/partner/family member who has enrolled in this protocol
- screened positive for PTSD and/or AUD through their responses to a RINGS survey
- and have not received mental health care (based on VA administrative data) or in the community for the past 3 months
You may not qualify if…
- Family members (and thus Veterans) will not be eligible for the study if they or their Veteran have reported severe levels of interpersonal violence in their relationship in the past 3 months.
Where it is running
- Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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