Justice-Involved Veterans and Moral Reconation Therapy

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Substance Use Disorder

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) is effective for reducing risk of criminal recidivism and improving other health-related outcomes (substance use, mental health, housing, and employment problems) among justice-involved Veterans entering residential mental health treatment programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02524171

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

344

Starts

2016-04-04

Expected to finish

2021-03-30

Last updated by the study team

2023-07-27

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Veterans who
• (a) are entering a mental health residential rehabilitation treatment program (MH RRTP) at one of three study sites (Palo Alto, Little Rock, or Bedford VA), and
• (b) had been arrested and charged and/or released from incarceration in the past 5 years prior to MH RRTP admission will be eligible for participation

You may not qualify if…

• The only exclusion criterion is being too cognitively impaired to understand the informed consent process and other study procedures.

Where it is running

• Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center, Little Rock, AR — North Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
• VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA — Palo Alto, California, United States
• VA Bedford HealthCare System, Bedford, MA — Bedford, Massachusetts, United States

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