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Connecting Women to Care: Home-based Psychotherapy for Women With MST Living in Rural Areas

NCT03429166 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 204

Last updated 2025-04-25

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Summary

Military sexual trauma (MST) is a common duty-related stressor which occurs among one in four female Veterans and is associated with substantial concerns about social isolation and high rates of PTSD. Women with MST also experience numerous person-level barriers to care including the desire to avoid male-dominated VA clinics, transportation difficulties and childcare responsibilities. Treatment programs that address the social and mental health needs of this population and acknowledge barriers to care that disproportionately affect women are lacking. The proposed study will use a hybrid effectiveness-implementation design to evaluate the in-home delivery of a gender-sensitive, evidence-based coping skills program to improve social and role functioning as well as reduce PTSD and will prioritize enrolling rural women in a representative manner. If the program is found to be successful at improving social functioning and PTSD, and in reducing barriers to care, it will provide a tremendous benefit to women Veterans with MST, particularly those in rural areas.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation

A non-trauma-focused treatment

BEHAVIORAL

Present Centered Therapy

A non-trauma-focused treatment

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • San Diego Veterans Healthcare System

    collaborator FED

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Marylene Cloitre, PhD · VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-09-03
Primary Completion
2022-05-31
Completion
2022-12-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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