Collaborative Care for Women Veterans

NCT ID: NCT02950961

Last Updated: 2024-03-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 153 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-06-30
• Study Completion Date: 2021-03-08

Brief Summary

Implementation of Tailored Collaborative Care for Women Veterans (CCWV) was designed to enhance primary care-mental health integration for women Veterans by tailoring services to women Veterans' and providers' needs and providing an evidence-based intervention, Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management, to address anxiety and depression in a patient-centered approach. CCWV was implemented in two of the Women's Health Practice-Based Research Network sites, with careful attention to local tailoring and adaptation to enhance the fit of the care model in varied local contexts.

Detailed Description

Background: Women Veterans are the fastest growing segment of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) users. This dramatic growth has created challenges for VHA. Gender disparities persist in cardiovascular (CV) and diabetes risk factor control, and rates of depression, anxiety, and mental health comorbidity are disproportionately high among women Veterans. Furthermore, a high rate of women Veterans' attrition from VA care, along with organizational barriers to care, substantiate that organizational changes are needed in order to engage and retain women Veteran VHA users in evidence-based, patient-centered care.

Objectives: The Enhancing Mental and Physical health of Women through Engagement and Retention (EMPOWER) QUERI addresses VHA Blueprint for Excellence Strategy 6, by advancing "personalized, proactive, patient-centered" care models, and Transformational Strategy 7.2.g by implementation of innovative care models in women Veterans' health care." The EMPOWER QUERI Program was designed to improve women Veterans' engagement and retention in evidence-based care for three high priority health conditions, i.e., prediabetes, cardiovascular, and mental health. To achieve this impact goal, the investigators proposed a cohesive portfolio of projects with the following aims: (1) To use an evidence-based implementation strategy that emphasizes local tailoring of care models, multilevel stakeholder engagement, and systematic evaluation of complex implementation processes in order to enrich organizational capacity for innovations in women Veterans' VHA health care; (2) To implement personalized, proactive, patient-centered innovations in VHA women's health that are acceptable, feasible, satisfactory, relevant, and effective for both providers and patients, thereby encouraging women Veterans' engagement and retention and sustainability of the innovations; and, (3) To generate implementation "playbooks" for the investigators' partners that are scalable and serve as guidance for future implementation of a broader array of evidence-based women's health programs and policy.

Methods: Three projects were conducted by an experienced multidisciplinary team. This trial pertains to "Implementation of Tailored Collaborative Care for Women Veterans," which evaluated implementation of an evidence-based collaborative care model tailored to enhance provider- and system-level capabilities to address women Veterans' anxiety and depression treatment needs, thereby improving organizational primary care-mental health integration (PC-MHI) effectiveness and women Veterans' engagement and retention in PC-MHI. This implementation research study used mixed methods implementation evaluation to investigate primary implementation outcomes of adoption, acceptability, feasibility, and reach. Multilevel stakeholder engagement was prioritized. Program-wide organizational-, provider-, and patient-level data was utilized to enhance synergy, productivity, and impact. Several implementation outcomes were assessed using qualitative methods and will be reported elsewhere (e.g. final report, manuscripts).These include Adoption of Care Model, Acceptability of Care Model, Feasibility of Care Model, and Satisfaction With Care Model.

As a coherent program of women's health implementation research and quality improvement, the EMPOWER QUERI constituted a major milestone in achieving Blueprint for Excellence (BPE) strategies and realizing women Veterans' engagement and, ultimately, empowerment in the VHA system.

Conditions

Anxiety; Depression; Stress Disorders, Post Traumatic

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Arm 1: Mixed Methods Implementation Evaluation

The investigators used mixed methods to evaluate the implementation in two VA Women's Practice Based Research Network (PBRN) sites, describing services and patterns of care utilized by patients prior to seeing a care manager, and then 30, 60, 180, and 365 days post initiation of care with the care manager. Investigators also evaluated facilitators and barriers to implementation of this collaborative care model.

Group Type: OTHER

Collaborative Care for Women Veterans

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

This is a collaborative care model that focuses on identifying need for depression and/or anxiety care. Patients with possible anxiety and/or depression are referred to a care manager in primary care-mental health integration. The care manager then conducts a thorough assessment, offers the patient a variety of appropriate treatment options, and works with the patient to determine a care plan. One of the key options the investigators offered in this study is the Calm Tools for Living (CALM) intervention, which is focused on anxiety and which is rooted in patient preferences. Patients can choose web-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and/or pharmacologic treatment. In this study the investigators trained appropriate MH providers in CALM and studied the ways in which the intervention needs to be tailored to women Veterans.

Interventions

Collaborative Care for Women Veterans

This is a collaborative care model that focuses on identifying need for depression and/or anxiety care. Patients with possible anxiety and/or depression are referred to a care manager in primary care-mental health integration. The care manager then conducts a thorough assessment, offers the patient a variety of appropriate treatment options, and works with the patient to determine a care plan. One of the key options the investigators offered in this study is the Calm Tools for Living (CALM) intervention, which is focused on anxiety and which is rooted in patient preferences. Patients can choose web-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and/or pharmacologic treatment. In this study the investigators trained appropriate MH providers in CALM and studied the ways in which the intervention needs to be tailored to women Veterans.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

Gender-Tailored Primary Care-Mental Health Integration

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Patient Participants:

• Women VA patients with possible or confirmed anxiety and/or depression and/or PTSD

Provider Participants:

• VA staff in a primary care and/or mental health clinic

Exclusion Criteria

Patient Participants:

• Male gender
• Cognitive impairment that would preclude completion of informed consent

Provider Participants:

• None

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

VA Office of Research and Development

FED

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Alison B Hamilton, PhD MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA

Ariel J. Lang, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA

Locations

VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA

San Diego, California, United States

VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA

West Los Angeles, California, United States

VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, OR

Portland, Oregon, United States

Countries

United States

References

Finley EP, Huynh AK, Farmer MM, Bean-Mayberry B, Moin T, Oishi SM, Moreau JL, Dyer KE, Lanham HJ, Leykum L, Hamilton AB. Periodic reflections: a method of guided discussions for documenting implementation phenomena. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2018 Nov 27;18(1):153. doi: 10.1186/s12874-018-0610-y.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 30482159 (View on PubMed)

Hamilton AB, Farmer MM, Moin T, Finley EP, Lang AJ, Oishi SM, Huynh AK, Zuchowski J, Haskell SG, Bean-Mayberry B. Enhancing Mental and Physical Health of Women through Engagement and Retention (EMPOWER): a protocol for a program of research. Implement Sci. 2017 Nov 7;12(1):127. doi: 10.1186/s13012-017-0658-9.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 29116022 (View on PubMed)

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

View Document

Other Identifiers

QUX 16-008

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id