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Illness Management and Recovery for Veterans With Severe Mental Illness

NCT00515671 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 118

Last updated 2021-12-15

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Summary

The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health has called for a transformation of the mental health system to partner with consumers of those services in delivering effective interventions focused on recovery, and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has developed a Mental Health Strategic Plan to address these recommendations. One promising approach is to implement Illness Management and Recovery (IMR), a structured curriculum to help mental health consumers manage their illnesses and pursue goals related to recovery from mental illness.

IMR was developed from a review of effective approaches for illness self-management training in persons with severe mental illness. The 9-month curriculum is taught using motivational, educational, and cognitive-behavioral techniques, and incorporates five evidence-based practices: education about mental illness, strategies for increasing medication adherence, skills training to enhance social support, relapse prevention planning, and coping skills training. The program was developed for widespread dissemination and includes a manual, worksheets, an introductory video, a clinical training video, a fidelity scale, and informational brochures for consumers, family members, clinicians, and administrators.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Illness Management and Recovery

a structured curriculum to help mental health consumers manage their illnesses and pursue goals related to recovery from mental illness

BEHAVIORAL

Problem Solving

Weekly problem-solving support group

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Indiana University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Dartmouth College

    collaborator OTHER

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Michelle P Salyers, MS PhD · Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-01-31
Primary Completion
2012-04-30
Completion
2013-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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