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Self-Help Intervention for Post 9/11 Veterans With Depression or PTSD Symptoms

NCT07202325 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2025-10-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

It is important to provide support and resources for the many post-9/11 Veterans with mental health symptoms and poor psychosocial functioning who do not engage in psychotherapy. One of the biggest reasons post-9/11 Veterans do not seek treatment is a preference to handle problems on their own. This study examines a self-help intervention that teaches Veterans healthy coping strategies they can use on their own and how to seek out recovery support services such as mental health treatment or whole-person care if they decide to do so in the future. This study will compare the impact of self-help and standard resources at improving mental health and resource utilization. Two hundred Veterans will complete 6 brief assessments across 40 weeks.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Resilience Training for Veterans (REST-V)

A 6-week self-help intervention tailored for post-9/11 Veterans offering guidance on cognitive-behavioral self-management coping strategies plus when and how to access recovery support services including mental health treatment. Materials are sent once a week for 6 weeks, and participants can opt to receive weekly reminder text messages or up to 3 brief telephone support calls.

OTHER

Usual resources

Standard printed resource/treatment information provided in VHA usual care to post-9/11 Veterans. Covers similar domains as the intervention materials and provides information on a variety of VA and community resources for Veterans. Materials are sent once.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Robyn L. Shepardson, 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
2026-10-01
Primary Completion
2029-07-31
Completion
2030-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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