Supported Education Pilot

NCT01073657 | Completed Early Phase 1 Results

• 1 other identifier: PPO 09-254
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 33
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of this project is to gather data necessary for a full scale trial of a supported education service for OIF/OEF veterans with PTSD. Forty Veterans with PTSD will be randomly assigned to an intervention group (N=20) that receives a weekly supported education intervention and a control group that receives services as usual plus an hour of attentive intervention not focused on education. We will assess and compare the number of hours of participation in community education settings and on acquiring an educational goal for the Veterans in each group.

Conditions

PTSD

Keywords

Rehabilitation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• "Supported Education Process Measure"

  Number of quarter hours spent in activities related to acquiring an education goal e.g., preparing applications, attending classes. Hours will be logged on a tally sheet adapted from the "Supported Education Process Measure" (Corrigan, 2009).

  6 months

Study Arms (2)

Supported Education

EXPERIMENTAL

Veterans received supported education services. A Veteran peer met weekly as needed with a subject for up to six months in a psycho-social rehabilitation service for meeting education goals. Goals included choosing a college, getting admitted or enrolled, and maintaining enrollment and completing classes.

Other: Supported Education

General Peer Support

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Matched attention was provided by a Veteran peer who met weekly with Veterans but who focused on help with any personal goal (eg, employment, housing) but not on education.

Other: General Peer Support

Interventions

Supported Education OTHER

Rehabilitation counseling using peers to achieve educational goals

Also known as: Psychosocial Rehabilitation

Supported Education

General Peer Support OTHER

Matched peer support for any personal goal other than education

General Peer Support

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• PTSD
• OIF/OEF Service

You may not qualify if:

• None

Sponsors & Collaborators

• US Department of Veterans Affairs: lead

Study Sites (1)

Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA

Bedford, Massachusetts, 01730, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Ellison ML, Mueller L, Smelson D, Corrigan PW, Torres Stone RA, Bokhour BG, Najavits LM, Vessella JM, Drebing C. Supporting the education goals of post-9/11 veterans with self-reported PTSD symptoms: a needs assessment. Psychiatr Rehabil J. 2012 Winter;35(3):209-17. doi: 10.2975/35.3.2012.209.217.

  PMID: 22246119 RESULT

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Interventions

Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Stress Disorders, Traumatic; Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders; Mental Disorders

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Rehabilitation; Therapeutics; Health Services; Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Marsha Langer Ellison, Ph.D.
• Organization: Veterans Health Adminstration

Marsha.Ellison@va.gov

781 687 3401

Study Officials

• Marsha Langer Ellison, PhD MSW

  Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: Yes

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: early phase 1
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: FED
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 18, 2010
• First Posted: February 23, 2010
• Study Start: November 1, 2011
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2012
• Study Completion: August 1, 2012
• Last Updated: April 28, 2015
• Results First Posted: February 18, 2015

Record last verified: 2014-09

Locations

US (1)