Evaluation of Peer Specialists on VA PACTs
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Mental Illness, Physical Illness
In brief
In August 2014, the White House issued an Executive Action mandating that 25 VA medical centers place Peer Specialists (Veterans recovered from mental illness who are trained to support other Veterans with mental illness) on Primary Care Teams. Research shows that the success of adding new staff to existing teams can be improved by outside aid and facilitation. This quality improvement project will evaluate whether providing expanded support to half of the Primary Care Teams will lead to better outcomes when compared with teams that do not get extra support.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02732600
- Run by
- VA Office of Research and Development
- People needed
- 5616
- Starts
- 2016-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2019-10-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2023-07-27
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Included sites must be VA PACT Primary Care Health teams with existing Peer Specialists who are able to include an existing Peer Specialist on their team for a minimum of 10 hours per week for one year
You may not qualify if…
- Non VA PACT teams, VA sites without an existing Peer Specialists, and VA PACT primary care teams that cannot commit a Peer Specialist to Primary Care for a minimum of 10 hours per week are excluded
Where it is running
- Southern Arizona VA Health Care System, Tucson, AZ — Tucson, Arizona, United States
- VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA — Palo Alto, California, United States
- San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA — San Francisco, California, United States
- VA Connecticut Healthcare System West Haven Campus, West Haven, CT — West Haven, Connecticut, United States
- North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, Gainesville, FL — Gainesville, Florida, United States
- West Palm Beach VA Medical Center, West Palm Beach, FL — West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Atlanta VA Medical and Rehab Center, Decatur, GA — Decatur, Georgia, United States
- Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL — Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL — Hines, Illinois, United States
- VA Northern Indiana Health Care System Marion Campus, Marion, IN — Marion, Indiana, United States
- Lexington VA Medical Center, Lexington, KY — Lexington, Kentucky, United States
- Maine VA Medical Center, Augusta, ME — Togus, Maine, United States
- Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA — Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
- John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Detroit, MI — Detroit, Michigan, United States
- St. Louis VA Medical Center John Cochran Division, St. Louis, MO — St Louis, Missouri, United States
- Syracuse VA Medical Center, Syracuse, NY — Syracuse, New York, United States
- Salisbury W.G. (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center, Salisbury, NC — Salisbury, North Carolina, United States
- Chillicothe VA Medical Center, Chillicothe, OH — Chillicothe, Ohio, United States
- Cincinnati VA Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Chalmers P. Wylie Ambulatory Care Center, Columbus, OH — Columbus, Ohio, United States
- Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System University Drive Division, Pittsburgh, PA — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center, Columbia, SC — Columbia, South Carolina, United States
- White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT — White River Junction, Vermont, United States
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