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Web-based Program to Improve Self-management Among Veterans-caregiver Dyads

NCT06001541 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 560

Last updated 2025-06-13

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Summary

The majority of Veterans will suffer from at least one chronic illness, often at great emotional and personal cost. Self-management is critical to improving physical and emotional outcomes, and many chronically ill Veterans receive self-management assistance from an informal caregiver, and both Veterans and informal caregivers experience individual and interpersonal stress as they navigate this journey. Yet, current clinical practices are not designed to effectively support the needs of both Veterans and their informal caregiver. Furthermore, self-management practices often require in-person visits, limiting access for Veterans and informal caregivers who live in rural areas, those with a physical disability, or those with financial challenges. This project tests a web-based, self-guided, behavioral intervention that targets the stress coping needs of Veterans with chronic illness and their informal caregivers. Results from this study could provide an important solution to the problem of poor self-management, which complicates the lives and prognosis of many Veterans.

Conditions

  • Chronic Medical Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Web-SUCCEED

web-SUCCEED (Web-based Self-management Using Collaborative Coping EnhancEment in Diseases), a theoretically-derived, dyadic, self-management program.20,21 Web-SUCCEED is designed to improve self-management by improving dyadic stress coping and strengthening collaboration and communication.21 Web-SUCCEED comprises: 1) a three-module, self-paced behavioral intervention that Veterans and caregivers complete individually (one audio/video module per week) on the web-SUCCEED website; 2) brief, staff-led telephone calls in which dyads participate simultaneously after each module; and 3) peer support via a study-specific discussion board. Dyads learn and practice cognitive behavioral skills to reduce individual and relationship stress; improve positive emotions; improve communication and collaboration; increase pleasant activities; and maintain behavior change.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Ranak B Trivedi, PhD MA MS · 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
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-05-01
Primary Completion
2026-09-30
Completion
2027-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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