Behavioral Economics Intervention to Increase Treatment Seeking in the National Guard

Treatment Refusal Clinical Trial

— BEAST  

Official title:

Behavioral Economics Intervention to Increase Treatment Seeking in the National Guard

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Enrolling by invitation

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04098588
• Other study ID #: W81XWH-16-2-0003
• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 15, 2019
• Est. completion date: March 29, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: October 2022
• Source: University of Southern Mississippi
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study is a randomized controlled trial of a single-session behavioral economics (research combining the areas of economics, social psychology, and cognitive psychology) intervention (i.e., BEAST) is a"warrior-culture" consistent (i.e., focusing on positive soldier traits, solving practical problems), highly scalable, and extremely brief (10-minute) intervention to encourage treatment seeking among MS National Guard problems for various life stressors. Participants will be 112 National Guard members. It is hypothesized that BEAST will lead to more self-reported motivation to seek treatment and more actual treatment seeking behavior.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Enrollment: 112
• Est. completion date: March 29, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: March 29, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• National Guard active

• > 17 ACSS-FAD

Exclusion Criteria:

• those determined by military or study personnel to be actively psychotic, manic, or who are imminently suicidal and in need of emergency services.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Treatment Refusal

Intervention

Behavioral:
• BEAST
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• Descriptive Feedback
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Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Southern Mississippi	Hattiesburg	Mississippi

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Southern Mississippi	Military Suicide Research Consortium

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Psychosocial Treatments Interview-Revised	Measure changes in treatment seeking behavior	1 month post intervention
Primary	University of Rhode Island Change Assessment	Measure motivation to change the target behavior	1 month post intervention
Secondary	Psychosocial Treatments Interview-Revised	Measure changes in treatment seeking behavior	3 month post intervention
Secondary	University of Rhode Island Change Assessment	Measure motivation to change the target behavior	3 month post intervention