Behavioral Economics Intervention to Increase Treatment Seeking in the National Guard

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Treatment Refusal

• Registration Number: NCT04098588
• Lead Sponsor: University of Southern Mississippi

Brief 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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2019-09-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-09-18
• Study First Posted: 2019-09-23
• Study Start: 2019-12-15
• Status Verified: 2022-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-11-03
• Last Update Posted: 2022-11-04
• Primary Completion: 2023-03-29
• Study Completion: 2023-03-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 112

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.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Psychosocial Treatments Interview-Revised	1 month post intervention	Measure changes in treatment seeking behavior
University of Rhode Island Change Assessment	1 month post intervention	Measure motivation to change the target behavior

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Psychosocial Treatments Interview-Revised	3 month post intervention	Measure changes in treatment seeking behavior
University of Rhode Island Change Assessment	3 month post intervention	Measure motivation to change the target behavior

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Southern Mississippi; 🇺🇸 Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States