Telephone Coaching of Family Members of Veterans With Substance Abuse Problems

Substance Abuse Clinical Trial

— VA-CRAFT  

Official title:

Telephone Coaching of Family Members of Veterans With Substance Abuse Problems

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03246646
• Other study ID #: D2070-P
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 14, 2017
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: June 2021
• Source: VA Office of Research and Development
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This project will develop and pilot test an enhanced, telephone "coaching" intervention to help family members concerned about a Veteran of the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan who needs to seek treatment for a substance abuse problem.

Description:

The investigators will first develop a detailed manual for Coaching-CRAFT, which will be a telephone-based model of coaching that uses the web-version of an intervention already developed and available to the investigators. The investigators will conduct a preliminary nonrandomized feasibility trial of the use of Coaching-CRAFT with a sample of 50 family member callers recruited from VA's Coaching Into Care call center. Later in the study, the investigators will recruit up to 50 Veterans whose family members also participated in this study. Since the 'Coaching Into Care' telephone-based call center located at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center (CMCVAMC) is a national call center, study subjects (non-Veterans and Veterans) will be from all parts of the United States. Family members (spouses, siblings, or parents) of Veteran will be recruited from Coaching Into Care, and offered telephone-based coaching to the family member regarding their concern that the Veteran has a substance abuse problem and does not want to seek treatment. The program will involve approximately 12 telephone calls over 4-6 months. Family members will be assessed for their own mental health symptoms, their perception of their Veteran's mental health symptoms and substance use, his or her treatment, as well as their perception of burden on the relationship with the Veteran. These assessments will occur at study entry, 6 months, and 12 months after study entry. Veteran's perceptions of the intervention will be sought at 12 months, whenever safe and practical. For Veterans who are not approached to participate in the study, VHA administrative data will be sought through a HIPAA Waiver to confirm any possible mental health and or substance abuse treatment the Veteran has received. Rates of initiation of treatment will be compared to QA data from the Coaching Into Care call center.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 52
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: September 30, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• CSO is a sibling, spouse/ intimate partner, or parent of a US military Veteran who served in Iraq or Afghanistan since 2001
• by the report of the CSO the Veteran of interest has a substance abuse problem that has led to interpersonal, legal, occupational, and/or health related negative consequences
• the CSO reports that the Veteran is not currently receiving treatment for this problem
• the CSO has contact 4+times/week and lives with or within 30 min. of the Veteran.

Exclusion Criteria:

• CSO has a SUD (Form 90, see Measures)
• the Veteran is currently incarcerated
• the CSO has no computer or other device with Internet access able to view video content
• the CSO or Veteran likely has a psychotic disorder (CSO report on the MINI) (see Measures)
• the CSO's involvement in a "coaching" intervention meant to encourage the Veteran to actively consider to seek care places the CSO at risk on a physical or psychological basis
• Callers who do not have access to a safe phone line will not be referred to the study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Substance Abuse
• Substance-Related Disorders

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Coaching
Telephone coaching was provided in a series of telephone based sessions with CSO participants

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
VA Office of Research and Development

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of Veteran's Engaged in Mental Health Care	Veteran's mental health care engagement was assessed from CSO participants' report.	At any point during study involvement, up to 1 year after enrollment