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Justice-Involved Veterans and Moral Reconation Therapy

NCT02524171 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 344

Last updated 2023-07-27

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) is effective for reducing risk of criminal recidivism and improving other health-related outcomes (substance use, mental health, housing, and employment problems) among justice-involved Veterans entering residential mental health treatment programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Conditions

  • Antisocial Personality Disorder
  • Substance Use Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT)

MRT is a group-based cognitive-behavioral intervention to restructure antisocial thinking. Patients will receive two groups per week of this intervention for approximately 12 weeks, in addition to the usual care they receive in the mental health residential rehabilitation treatment program.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Daniel M. Blonigen, PhD MA · VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-04-04
Primary Completion
2020-09-30
Completion
2021-03-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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