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A Mobile App for Peer-led Seeking Safety

NCT03846115 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 130

Last updated 2023-01-03

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Summary

Peer support is historically prominent for substance use disorder (SUD), such as the world-wide model of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step groups. Yet for trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) there have been few attempts at peer help. A major challenge of trauma peer groups is that they usually focus on telling the story of members' trauma histories, which can be overly triggering and distressing. Seeking Safety offers an excellent choice for peer-led care. It is an evidence-based and is the most widely adopted model for SUD/PTD. It is present-focused, cognitive-behavioral, and provides psychoeducation and coping skills to help clients attain greater safety in their lives. It has been successfully implemented in peer-led format for many years and has been studied in various trials, including a recent randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing peer versus professional delivery, with positive results. In Phase 1 we developed a beta version of a mobile app for peer-led Seeking Safety (PLSS). In Phase 2 we will enhance the app features and content and also conduct an RCT in a sample of adults with current SUD/PTSD to compare the Peer Safety app condition to a control app.

Conditions

  • Substance Use Disorders
  • PTSD
  • Trauma
  • Emotional Dysfunction

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Peer-Led Seeking Safety app

This app offers participants sessions of Seeking Safety plus enhanced app features designed to engage and sustain participants in their recovery work.

BEHAVIORAL

Control app

This app offers the Seeking Safety content but without the enhanced features

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Treatment Innovations

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Lisa Najavits, PhD · Treatment Innovations

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-10-01
Primary Completion
2022-07-08
Completion
2022-07-08

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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