Evaluation of the Readiness Supportive Leadership Training - National Guard

NCT ID: NCT07203170

Last Updated: 2025-10-02

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 5400 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2026-02-28
• Study Completion Date: 2029-06-30

Brief Summary

The goal of this randomized clinical trial is to evaluate an intervention aimed at increasing the support leaders in the National Guard provide to their subordinates to promote mental health and well-being and reduce risk factors. Survey data will be collected from leaders, service members (SMs) and spouse/partners to evaluate the training effectiveness.

The primary objective of the trial is to demonstrate efficacy in the NG, including effects on leaders, SMs, and spouse/partners on the following outcomes:

H1: Leaders in the intervention group will demonstrate significant improvements in digital learning effects from pre-test to post-test.

H2: The intervention will significantly decrease SM and Leader reports of problematic anger, loneliness, and psychological distress 6-months and then 12-months post-baseline.

H3: Spouses/partners of SMs in the intervention group will report decreases in problematic anger, loneliness, and psychological distress at 6 and 12 months.

Researchers will compare those in the training intervention group to a wait-list control group.

The leadership training builds on a training evaluated in a previous RCT (NCT04152824) adapting from active duty Army to National Guard, including Air NG, and adding an additional facilitated session component. The intervention will include: (1) a 1-hour digital learning utilizing an interactive and self-paced computer-based training, (2) an behavior tracking exercise, and (3) a 1-hour facilitated session, approximately one month later.

Conditions

Psychological Distress; Anger Problems; Loneliness

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Leadership Training Intervention

Includes leaders, service members, and their spouse/partners where applicable whose units were randomized to receive the RESULT-NG training

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Readiness Supportive Leadership Training for the National Guard (RESULT-NG)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

RESULT-NG is a multi-level intervention where leaders receive the training intervention, with evaluation of effects at the subordinate, leader and spouse levels.

RESULT-NG consists of three distinct but related components: 1) a 60-minute, multimedia, interactive digital-learning training session, 2) a two-week behavior tracking exercise that takes less than 2 minutes/day after the digital learning to put what was learned into practice, and 3) a 60-minute facilitated session, either in person or virtual, with trained staff embedded within the National Guard.

Wait-list Control

The Waitlist Control Arm serves as a delayed start arm. During months 0-15, the waitlist control arm acts as usual practice/no intervention comparator. During months 16-21 (i.e. after final data collection), the waitlist control warm will receive the intervention.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Readiness Supportive Leadership Training for the National Guard (RESULT-NG)

RESULT-NG is a multi-level intervention where leaders receive the training intervention, with evaluation of effects at the subordinate, leader and spouse levels.

RESULT-NG consists of three distinct but related components: 1) a 60-minute, multimedia, interactive digital-learning training session, 2) a two-week behavior tracking exercise that takes less than 2 minutes/day after the digital learning to put what was learned into practice, and 3) a 60-minute facilitated session, either in person or virtual, with trained staff embedded within the National Guard.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 years of age (adults)
• Employed as a member of the Oregon National Guard (ORNG), including Title 5 and 32 civilians, or is a spouse/partner of an ORNG service member married or cohabitating with the SM for 6 months or more

Exclusion Criteria

• Under 18 years of age
• Not employed as a member of the Oregon National Guard (ORNG), including Title 5 and 32 civilians, or is a spouse/partner of an ORNG service member married or cohabitating with the SM for less than 6 months

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 89 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Oregon Health and Science University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Leslie Hammer

Associate Director of Applied Research

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Central Contacts

Krista Brockwood, PhD

Role: CONTACT

brockwoo@ohsu.edu

15034759591

Other Identifiers

HT9425-25-1-0668

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id