Safety and Effectiveness Study: Role Playing Game for Friends and Family of Service Members

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Communication

In brief

This project is a partnership between Soar Technology, the University of Southern California (USC) Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families (CIR) and the USC Creative Media and Behavioral Health Center (CM\&BHC) to conduct a Safety and Effectiveness Study (SES) for an educational role-playing game developed by Soar Technology, Inc. The purpose of the intervention to be delivered by Soar Technology is to educate families and friends with the ultimate goal of empowering them to have a conversation with the veteran/service member about readjustment issues. The study will assess the safety and effectiveness of the provided game using personal interviews, play testing, and surveys. The game playing experience is hypothesized to be safe and effective with respect to having conversations with veterans/service members following deployment.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01807806

Run by

University of Southern California

People needed

65

Starts

2013-03-01

Expected to finish

2013-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-05-05

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 86. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• must be friend or family member to a military veteran or service member who experienced a deployment no earlier than 2007, or who are currently active and have recently returned from a deployment
• be able to read English
• be reachable via cell phone
• age range 18-86
• daily access to the internet
• have a personal email account for contact
• experience with filling out online surveys, or online shopping, or social media, or playing digital games

You may not qualify if…

• no acute psychopathology based on PHQ-9 and VAS scores at baseline and VAS and PHQ-2 at pre-test
• must not be active duty military personnel or a veteran at the time of the study
• service member or self is not currently receiving treatment at VA or other mental health facility

Where it is running

• University of Southern California School of Social Work — Los Angeles, California, United States

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