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Evaluation of Peer Specialists on VA PACTs

NCT02732600 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 5616

Last updated 2023-07-27

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Summary

In August 2014, the White House issued an Executive Action mandating that 25 VA medical centers place Peer Specialists (Veterans recovered from mental illness who are trained to support other Veterans with mental illness) on Primary Care Teams. Research shows that the success of adding new staff to existing teams can be improved by outside aid and facilitation. This quality improvement project will evaluate whether providing expanded support to half of the Primary Care Teams will lead to better outcomes when compared with teams that do not get extra support.

Conditions

  • Mental Illness
  • Physical Illness

Interventions

OTHER

Facilitated Implementation

Facilitated Implementation sites will receive one year of support based on the i-PARIHS implementation model which includes training, implementation planning, ongoing external facilitation, feedback and consultation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • US Department of Veterans Affairs

    collaborator FED

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Matthew J. Chinman, PhD · VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System University Drive Division, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Richard W Goldberg, PhD · Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-01
Primary Completion
2019-03-31
Completion
2019-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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