Improving Housing Outcomes for Homeless Veterans

Veterans Clinical Trial

Official title:

Improving Housing Outcomes for Homeless Veterans (CDA 15-074)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03646149
• Other study ID #: CDX 18-004
• Secondary ID: CDA 15-074
• Status: Completed
• Start date: June 26, 2018
• Est. completion date: August 23, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: March 2023
• Source: VA Office of Research and Development
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Many homeless Veterans with serious mental illness (SMI) enroll in the VA's Supported Housing (VASH) program but struggle to obtain and sustain housing. Social skills are an important-but underappreciated-determinant of housing outcomes for homeless adults. The investigators hypothesize that homeless Veterans with SMI who participate in a social skills training program, tailored for housing-related social skills, will obtain housing quicker, retain housing longer, and show improved mental health outcomes compared to Veterans with similar needs not participating in such a program.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 38
• Est. completion date: August 23, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: August 23, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Identified by VA Greater Los Angeles homeless program staff as a participant in Housing Skills Training:

• Must have a history of homelessness

• Must be a Veteran over the age of 18 years

• Must have a serious mental illness (mood disorder, anxiety disorder, psychotic disorder)

Exclusion Criteria:

None

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Homeless Persons
• Mentally Ill Persons
• Veterans

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA	West Los Angeles	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
VA Office of Research and Development

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Client Satisfaction Questionnaire - 8	Acceptability of the intervention to participants Scores range from 8 to 32, with higher values indicating higher satisfaction (no specific cut-offs to indicate specific levels of satisfaction)	1 Year
Primary	Perceived characteristics of the intervention scale	Acceptability and appropriateness of the intervention to interventionists Scores range from 8-40, with higher values indicating higher levels of acceptability and appropriateness (no specific cut-offs to indicate specific levels of satisfaction)	1 Year
Secondary	Percent days housed for one year after intervention completion	We will use the medical record, augmented by the residential time line follow back, to assess longitudinal housing outcomes for Veterans receiving this intervention	1 year