Successful Transitions and Reintegration Tools for Veterans (START-VETS)

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Recently Incarcerated; Mental Illness; Substance Use Disorder
• Interventions: Behavioral: START-VET; Other: Treatment as usual

• Registration Number: NCT04366531
• Lead Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development

Brief Summary

This study will develop prison reentry materials for Veterans leaving prison.

Detailed Description

This study will be conducted in three phases Phase 1is to collect qualitative data from Veterans who have recently been released from prison. The data will focus on their transition experience, stigma (both self and from others), and behaviors that interfered with success. Phase 2a will be to develop a transition program based around the needs identified in phase 1 Phase 2b will be to develop assessment tools to be used with the program Phase 3 will be to perform a two group randomized cross over design pilot study to assess the program

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-04-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-04-24
• Study First Posted: 2020-04-29
• Study Start: 2020-08-03
• Primary Completion: 2025-01-31
• Status Verified: 2025-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-02-05
• Last Update Posted: 2025-02-06
• Study Completion: 2025-07-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

• Veteran with mental illness and/or substance use disorder released from prison within the past 36 months

Exclusion Criteria

• psychosis or cognitive impairment precluding active participation

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Reentry Program	START-VET	Veterans will receive the START-VET reentry program
Reentry Program	Treatment as usual	Veterans will receive the START-VET reentry program

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in the Brief Symptom Inventory -18	The Brief Symptom Inventory will be administered at the baseline of the subject's participation and again every 4 weeks for 16 weeks.	The Brief Symptom Inventory - 18 evaluates the domains of Somatization, Depression, and Anxiety. Each scale has 6 items, with a range of 0-24. Higher indicates a higher amount of the identified construct, i.e a worse outcome.
Inventory of Criminal Thinking Style	The Inventory of Criminal Thinking Style will be administered at the baseline of the subject's participation and again every 4 weeks for 16 weeks.	The Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) is an 80-item self-report inventory designed to measure eight thinking styles presumed to reinforce, support, and maintain a criminal lifestyle. The eight thinking styles assessed by the PICTS are Mollification, Cutoff, Entitlement, Power Orientation, Superoptimism, Sentimentality, Cognitive Indolence, and Discontinuity. There are 10 items on each scale with scale scores ranging from 0 - 30. Higher indicates worse outcomes
Change in the World Health Organization Quality of Life 100	The World Health Organization Quality of Live 100 will be administered at the baseline of the subject's participation and again every 4 weeks for 16 weeks.	The World Health Organization Quality of Life 100 is a overall measure quality of life for participants. It has 5 domains: Physical (12 items, range 12-60), Psychological (18 items, range 18-90), Independence (16 items, range 16 - 80), Social (12 items, range 12-60), Environment (32 items, range 32-160), and Spiritual (4 items, range 4-20). Higher indicates higher levels of quality of life.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

VA North Texas Health Care System Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX; 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States