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Helping Families Help Veterans With PTSD and Alcohol Abuse: An RCT of VA-CRAFT

NCT01678196 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 66

Last updated 2016-10-25

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Summary

This project begins to evaluate the effectiveness of a web-based family outreach tool that is designed to promote treatment engagement among Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or alcohol use disorders (AUDs) but who have not yet engaged in mental health care. The National Center for PTSD has developed an on-line, Veteran-tailored, interactive web tool called VA - Community Reinforcement and Family Training (VA-CRAFT) that trains family members to effectively help their Veterans to engage in treatment for PTSD and/or AUDs. This project will provide preliminary information about VA-CRAFT's effectiveness.

Conditions

  • PTSD
  • Alcohol Abuse

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

VA-CRAFT

VA-CRAFT is an on-line training program that teaches family members how to communicate and interact with Veterans to promote their engagement in needed mental health services for PTSD or Alcohol Use Disorders. 12 on-line sessions.

OTHER

Control

Participants will have the opportunity to complete the VA-CRAFT training program after 3 months; otherwise no intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Christopher R. Erbes, PhD · Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-05-31
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2016-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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