Impact of Stress First Aid for Workers in Substance Misuse Settings

NCT07177014 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: STUDY00008024
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 500
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Test the effectiveness of SFA adapted for the substance use outreach workforce compared to a no treatment control condition on social-support and burnout of HRWs in a cluster-randomized hybrid type I trial.

Conditions

Occupational Health

Keywords

Stress First Aid; Persons who use drugs; overdose prevention; community outreach workers; substance use outreach workers

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Change from Baseline in the Mean Overall Burnout Assessed by the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory at 2 Months

  A 19-item, 5-point Likert type scale, where a higher score is a worse outcome. Minimum score of 0, maximum score of 100.

  From enrollment to 2 months after the intervention training

• Change from Baseline in the Mean Overall Social Support Assessed by the Job Content Questionnaire Social Support Sub-Scale at 2 Months

  An 8-item; 4-point Likert-type scale, where a higher score is a better outcome. Minimum score of 8, maximum score of 40.

  From enrollment to 2 months after the intervention training

Study Arms (2)

No Treatment

NO INTERVENTION

Control: No Treatment

Stress First Aid (SFA)

EXPERIMENTAL

Treatment group receives Stress First Aid for the Substance Use Outreach Workforce, a 2-hour training and up to six virtual 30-minute monthly learning collaborative meetings.

Behavioral: Stress First Aid (SFA)

Interventions

Stress First Aid (SFA) BEHAVIORAL

Stress First Aid for the Substance Use Outreach Workforce is a 2-hour training and up to six virtual 30-minute monthly learning collaborative meetings.

Stress First Aid (SFA)

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 100 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• At least 18 years of age
• In a paid or volunteer role as a substance use outreach worker or community health/outreach worker (whose work includes substance use outreach) with people who use drugs within TX, LA, AR, OK, NM and tribal areas
• Able and willing to provide informed consent

You may not qualify if:

• \- Inability to provide consent

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Texas at Austin: lead
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas, 78712, United States

RECRUITING

Study Officials

• Creech

  The University of Texas at Austin

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Project Coordinator

CONTACT

512-495-5277; SFA@austin.utexas.edu

Outreach Coordinator

CONTACT

SFA@austin.utexas.edu

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate Dean of Strategic Research Initiatives and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Professor

Model Details: Cluster-randomized hybrid type I trial of SFA adapted for the substance use outreach workforce compared to a no treatment control condition.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 9, 2025
• First Posted: September 16, 2025
• Study Start: December 5, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): February 28, 2029
• Study Completion (Estimated): February 28, 2029
• Last Updated: March 3, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-02

Locations

US (1)