Improving Housing Outcomes for Homeless Veterans

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Mentally Ill Persons; Homeless Persons; Veterans
• Interventions: Behavioral: Housing Skills Training Group

• Registration Number: NCT03646149
• Lead Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development

Brief 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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-06-26
• Study First Submitted: 2018-08-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-08-22
• Study First Posted: 2018-08-24
• Primary Completion: 2022-08-23
• Study Completion: 2022-08-23
• Results First Submitted: 2023-08-21
• Status Verified: 2024-04
• Results First Submitted QC: 2024-04-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-04-10
• Results First Posted: 2024-07-19
• Last Update Posted: 2024-07-19

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 35

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Housing Skills Training Group Patients	Housing Skills Training Group	Homeless Veterans with serious mental illness who are inpatient at the VA Greater Los Angeles Domiciliary or enrolled in a VA Supported Housing (VASH) program and participating in a Housing Skills Training Group as part of routine clinical care. The intervention was 12 sessions long, with one session per week.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Client Satisfaction Questionnaire - 8	12 weeks after baseline assessment at start of intervention	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)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Percent Days Housed for One Year After Intervention Completion	1 year	We will use the medical record, augmented by the residential time line follow back, to assess longitudinal housing outcomes for Veterans receiving this intervention

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA; 🇺🇸 West Los Angeles, California, United States