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Telephone Support During Overseas Deployment for Military Spouses

NCT ID: NCT01828983

Last Updated: 2017-11-24

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

161 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2011-04-30

Study Completion Date

2015-06-30

Brief Summary

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Deployment impacts both service member and family, and the cost can be high. Spouses' reactions to deployment may include emotional distress, loneliness, anticipatory fear or grief, somatic complaints, and depression. The goal is to help spouses learn ways to manage stress and solve problems related to deployment and reintegration, communication, managing long distance relationships, and other common problems. The study will compare telephone support groups to online education sessions. The study will enroll 160 spouses. In the Telephone Support groups, a group leader and participants will meet 12 times over six months to focus on education, skills building and support. Education Only online sessions will provide the same education content, without skills building or support. Content includes strategies to reduce or eliminate communication difficulties during deployment, how to find help; practical concerns during deployment; fostering resilience and decreasing stress; fostering relationships while apart, negotiating roles and relationships; changes during deployment; strategies to support the spouse and the service member; and cues to alert spouses when to seek mental health services for the family or themselves. Outcomes will include resilience, depression, anxiety and coping behaviors. Telephone data collection will be conducted at baseline, six and twelve months.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Military Personnel Family Members Resilience, Psychological Deployment

Keywords

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Telephone Support groups Social support Depression

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Telephone support groups

Telephone support groups, each with participants and a trained group leader. Each hour-long telephone group will meet bi-monthly for six months for a total of 12 meetings. Groups are structured with education, skills building, and support. Participants will receive and use a Spouse Workbook with information and activities.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Telephone support groups

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Education webinars

Education Webinar session topics are the same that are covered in the intervention arm without telephone interaction/support and skills building components. Each session is 30-minutes. Each participant receives a Spouse Workbook with information and activities.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Education webinars

Intervention Type OTHER

Interventions

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Telephone support groups

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Education webinars

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* spouse or significant other (living as married for at least one year before deployment) of an overseas deployed military service member
* deployed at least six months

Exclusion Criteria

* living as married for at least one year before deployment
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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United States Department of Defense

FED

Sponsor Role collaborator

Memphis VA Medical Center

FED

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Linda O. Nichols, Ph.D.

Healthcare education specialist/Health Services Researcher

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Linda O Nichols, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Memphis VA Medical Center and University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Jennifer L Martindale-Adams, EdD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Memphis VA Medical Center

Locations

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Memphis VA Medical Center

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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W81XWH-11-2-0087

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id