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Improving Mood in Veterans in Primary Care

NCT02276807 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 140

Last updated 2019-07-01

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Summary

The purpose of the Improving Mood in Veterans in Primary Care (IIR 14-047) is to evaluate a brief educational individual workshop that is meant to help Veterans better understand feelings of sadness and ways to improve their mood. This study is intended to evaluate and establish the workshop's effectiveness for use with Veterans in primary care settings.

The study involves up to 6 in-person meetings and 6 telephone interviews across a 6-month period of time. Approximately 144 Veterans will participate in the study. Using a procedure like the flip of a coin, the participants will have a one in two chance of receiving the brief educational workshop or treatment as usual condition.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Brief Behavioral Activation

This is a 4-session individual workshop using behavioral activation techniques.

OTHER

Usual Care

Primary care patients will be referred to the integrated behavioral health provider to receive brief treatment in primary care.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Jennifer Schum Funderburk, PhD · Syracuse VA Medical Center, Syracuse, NY

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-03-23
Primary Completion
2018-03-01
Completion
2018-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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