Patterns of Alcohol Use and Suicide-related Thoughts Among Recently Discharged Veterans: Risk Factors Associated With the Military-to-Veteran Transition
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 450
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change in Heavy Episodic Drinking
研究概览
简要总结
This study will examine the efficacy of an internet-based brief intervention designed to reduce risky behavior in Soldiers as they transition from Active Duty into the civilian workforce as a Veteran. Up to 700 soldiers intending to separate from the Army will be recruited, with the intention of drawing a final sample of 450 participants. Study participants will be randomly assigned to either the intervention or the control group, stratified by age and gender.
详细描述
The combination of alcohol use and negative emotional states is a particularly toxic combination for suicide risk. The current study examines changes in alcohol/drug use/misuse and depression as soldiers undergo the transition from Active Duty to Veteran and offers a personalized internet-based brief intervention intended to prevent/reduce alcohol misuse and depression in this population.
The study's objectives are to empirically quantify the form of changes that occur with respect to alcohol use and depression over the transition; to identify stable individual risk factors (e.g., personality, military experiences) and dynamic risk factors (e.g., changes in stressors and normative contexts over time) that may be associated with differential temporal patterns of suicide-related behavior (i.e., alcohol use/misuse) and cognition (i.e., depression); and lastly, to determine whether a simple, internet-delivered brief intervention shown can reduce risky behavior in the transitioning Veteran population.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 62 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Is US solider intending to separate from active duty during the study enrollment period
- •Intends to seek civilian employment
- •Plans to live in US
排除标准
- •Plans to retire and not seek civilian employment
- •Plans to live outside of the US
- •Is separating or retiring from the National Guard or Reserves
结局指标
主要结局
Change in Heavy Episodic Drinking
时间窗: Through study completion, an average of monthly over 15 months
Description Single Alcohol Screening Question (SASQ) (Williams and Vinson, 2001)
Change in Modal alcohol consumption
时间窗: Through study completion, an average of monthly over 15 months
Daily Drinking Questionnaire (DDQ) (Collins, Parks, \& Marlatt, 1985)
Change in Negative Emotional State -- Depression
时间窗: Through study completion, an average of monthly over 15 months
The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9
次要结局
- Change in Alcohol-related problems(Through study completion, an average of monthly over 15 months)
- Change in Suicidal ideation(Through study completion, an average of monthly over 15 months)