Mindfulness-Based Recovery in Veterans

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Substance Abuse, Depression, Anxiety Disorder

In brief

This study will provide important information concerning the used of mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP) as a continuing care strategy for Veterans who have completed primary treatment for a SUD. Most research is focused on the acute care of SUDs, but the risk of relapse to substance use is highest during the period immediately following treatment and attention to continuing care is critical. If this trial demonstrates that MBRP promotes sustained abstinence and improved functional outcomes, this will provide a valuable treatment to facilitate rehabilitation and recovery for Veterans with SUDs.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02326363

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

204

Starts

2015-03-16

Expected to finish

2018-10-29

Last updated by the study team

2021-02-10

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Men and women military Veterans who have completed the Charleston or Tuscaloosa Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment program, a residential treatment program, or an intensive outpatient program similar to the Charleston or Tuscaloosa VAMC program.
• Able to comprehend English.
• Meets DSM-V criteria for a current substance use disorder and have used substances in the 30 days prior to treatment entry. Participants on medications targeting their substance use must be stabilized on medications for at least 2 weeks before therapy initiation.
• May meet criteria for a mood, anxiety or other psychiatric disorder. Participants on maintenance medications for a mood or anxiety disorder must be stabilized on medications for at least 2 weeks before therapy initiation.
• Able to adequately provide informed consent and function at an intellectual level sufficient to allow accurate completion of all assessment instruments.
• Willing to commit to 8 group therapy sessions, baseline, weekly and follow-up assessments for 10-months after the end of treatment (12-month total).

You may not qualify if…

• Active suicidal or homicidal ideation with a plan as this is likely to require hospitalization or other interventions that could interfere with study participation.
• Unstable psychiatric condition likely to require hospitalization or other interventions that would interfere with study participation.
• Unstable medical condition or one that may require hospitalization during the course of the study.
• Meets criteria for nicotine dependence only
• Women who are pregnant

Where it is running

• Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center, Tuscaloosa, AL — Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
• Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC — Charleston, South Carolina, United States

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