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COMPLETED
EARLY_PHASE1
33 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2011-11-30
2012-08-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Anticipated Impacts on Veterans Healthcare: Veterans with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) possess educational aspirations. Due to limited education and disability adjustment, many such veterans unsuccessfully locate employment or obtain entry level jobs with limited advancement opportunities. Even with current GI Bill funding increases, veterans experience non-financial barriers to their pursuit of educational goals. Supported education is a strategy developed within the civilian population that facilitates skill, career, and educational goals within post-secondary educational settings. It has been shown to increase educational engagement, participation, and completion, as well as improve empowerment and school efficacy. We hypothesize that supported education tailored to returning Veterans will result in similar outcomes.
Aims and Objectives: The goal of this project is to gather data necessary for a full scale trial of a supported education service for OIF/OEF veterans with PTSD. The following are the aims and objectives:
Aim 1: Using a randomized controlled design, assess the magnitude of the effect of a supported education service on hours of participation in community educational settings and on acquiring an educational goal. Objective: Assess the number of hours of participation in community education settings and on acquiring an educational goal for 40 Veterans with PTSD who are randomly assigned to an intervention group (N=20) that receives a weekly supported education intervention and a control group that receives services as usual plus an hour of attentive intervention not focused on education.
Aim 2. To examine whether the supported education intervention has secondary effects for improving PTSD symptoms and attitudes on recovery. Objective: Conduct pre- and post assessments of recovery attitudes and of PTSD symptoms, and then compare the control and intervention group for changes in these scores.
Aim 3. To acquire additional process information on the design and implementation of a supported education service necessary for a successful larger trial. Objective: Conduct a process evaluation of the implementation strategies for: participant recruitment, participant drop-out, technician training procedures, technician recovery promoting competence, and curriculum content and pacing using a standardized assessment, exit interviews, peer notes and study records.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
SINGLE_GROUP
TREATMENT
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Supported Education
Veterans received supported education services. A Veteran peer met weekly as needed with a subject for up to six months in a psycho-social rehabilitation service for meeting education goals. Goals included choosing a college, getting admitted or enrolled, and maintaining enrollment and completing classes.
Supported Education
Rehabilitation counseling using peers to achieve educational goals
General Peer Support
Matched attention was provided by a Veteran peer who met weekly with Veterans but who focused on help with any personal goal (eg, employment, housing) but not on education.
General Peer Support
Matched peer support for any personal goal other than education
Interventions
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Supported Education
Rehabilitation counseling using peers to achieve educational goals
General Peer Support
Matched peer support for any personal goal other than education
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* OIF/OEF Service
Exclusion Criteria
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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US Department of Veterans Affairs
FED
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Marsha Langer Ellison, PhD MSW
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA
Locations
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Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA
Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
Countries
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References
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Ellison ML, Mueller L, Smelson D, Corrigan PW, Torres Stone RA, Bokhour BG, Najavits LM, Vessella JM, Drebing C. Supporting the education goals of post-9/11 veterans with self-reported PTSD symptoms: a needs assessment. Psychiatr Rehabil J. 2012 Winter;35(3):209-17. doi: 10.2975/35.3.2012.209.217.
Other Identifiers
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PPO 09-254
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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