Peer Intervention to Improve Access Among Rural Women Veterans With Psychological Distress and Unmet Social Needs
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Conditions studied: Psychological Distress, Depression, PTSD, Anxiety
In brief
This research project will refine and evaluate delivery of a peer-delivered evidence-based intervention to improve perceived access and actual engagement with mental health treatment and social resource service use among rural women Veterans, especially Veterans of color, with psychological distress and unmet social needs.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05477706
- Run by
- Syracuse VA Medical Center
- People needed
- 72
- Starts
- 2021-10-01
- Expected to finish
- 2024-10-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2022-07-28
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Veteran Inclusion:
- Veteran status (non-Veterans will not be enrolled in this trial)
- Identifies as a woman or as gender fluid
- Resides in a rural or highly rural area
- Psychological distress in the past 6 months as evidenced by a diagnosis in the electronic health record or elevated score on the PHQ-9, GAD-7 and/or PCL
- At least one social need in the past 6 months on the PRAPARE
- Ability to communicate in English including reading, writing, hearing, and speaking well enough to complete research and intervention tasks.
- Providers Inclusion Criteria:
- Any provider (physician, social worker, therapist, etc. with experience working with rural women Veterans) employed by the VHA
- Peers inclusion criteria:
- Any peer specialist employed by the VHA who identifies as a woman or as gender fluid
- Veteran Exclusion Criteria:
- Any Veteran with high suicide or homicide risk and/or evaluated by the PI or another clinician to be clinically unstable
- Veterans with impairment that would not allow them to engage in study activities including active psychosis, cognitive deficits, severe substance use requiring detoxification (documented in electronic health record or reported by a primary care clinician team member)
- Aim 2 (Randomized controlled trial of PSP compared to TR)
- Inclusion:
- Veteran status (non-Veterans will not be enrolled in this trial)
- Identifies as a woman or as gender fluid
- Resides in a rural or highly rural area
- Veteran must reside in Southeastern Texas, Arkansas or Louisiana
- Psychological distress in the past 6 months as evidenced by a diagnosis in the electronic health record or elevated score on the PHQ-9, GAD-7 and/or PCL
- At least one social need in the past 6 months on the PRAPARE
- Ability to communicate in English including reading, writing, hearing, and speaking well enough to complete research and intervention tasks.
- Exclusion:
- Any Veteran with high suicide or homicide risk and/or evaluated by the PI or another clinician to be clinically unstable
Where it is running
- Syracuse VA Medical Center — Syracuse, New York, United States
- Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center — Houston, Texas, United States
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