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The Use of a Novel Peer Education Program for Improving PTSD Treatment Engagement Among Veterans

NCT03521999 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 330

Last updated 2024-06-14

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Summary

Behavioral health problems among Veterans have raised awareness of the critical need for more reliable, effective, and accessible ways to recognize those in need, direct them to help, and ensure that they receive the best evidence-based care available. AboutFace is a novel peer education program that features the personal stories of Veterans and is designed to improve Veterans' likelihood of engaging in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) specialty care. Using a randomized controlled study design the investigators propose to compare the efficacy of AboutFace relative to standard care for improving treatment engagement and outcomes. Additional data from VA providers will provide valuable information on wide scale implementation and dissemination of AboutFace. If AboutFace increases access of services, data will have broad implications for overcoming barriers to care for Veterans with PTSD and other stigmatized conditions.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

AboutFace

AboutFace is an online peer-to-peer digital storytelling resource for Veterans with PTSD. Veterans will have access to AboutFace while they are enrolled in PTSD specialty care through the Charleston PCT.

OTHER

Enhanced Usual Care (eUC)

Enhanced Usual Care (eUC) includes access to a PTSD educational brochure. Veterans will have access to the brochure information while they are enrolled in PTSD specialty care through the Charleston PCT.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Anouk L. Grubaugh, PhD MA BS · Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-01
Primary Completion
2022-08-30
Completion
2022-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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