Project VALOR: Veteran Stress and Wellbeing
- Conditions
- Alcohol Use DisorderDepression
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Internet Delivered Brief Intervention (IDBI)
- Registration Number
- NCT06095817
- Lead Sponsor
- Cornell University
- Brief Summary
This study will examine the efficacy of an internet-based brief intervention designed to reduce risky behavior veterans as the move into their second year post-Army. Up to 350 veterans drawn from The Network Study (Dept of Defense; Award number: W81XWH1920001) will be recruited with the intention of drawing a final sample of 300. Study participants will be randomly assigned to either the intervention or the control group, stratified by age and gender.
- Detailed Description
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 veterans transition further into their post-Army environment 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 as veterans move into their second year post-Army; 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 veteran population.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- TERMINATED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 140
- Is US Army veteran who participated in The Network Study (Dept of Defense; Award number: W81XWH1920001)
- Seeks/engages in civilian employment
- Lives in US
- Retired with no plans to seek civilian employment
- Living outside of the US
- Separated from the National Guard or Reserves
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Intervention Condition Internet Delivered Brief Intervention (IDBI) Participants assigned to the intervention condition will be invited to engage with an internet-based intervention at the start of the study (12 months following their separation) * Half of those in the intervention condition will have already received two prior IDBIs (as part of the DoD funded study) within the first 6 months of separation. * The other half of those in the intervention condition will have received no prior IDBIs.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in Heavy Episodic Drinking Through study completion, data collected quarterly from 15 to up to 24 months post-separation from the Army Single Alcohol Screening Question (SASQ) (Williams and Vinson, 2001)
Change in Modal alcohol consumption Through study completion, data collected quarterly from 15 to up to 24 months post-separation from the Army Daily Drinking Questionnaire (DDQ) (Collins, Parks, \& Marlatt, 1985)
Change in Negative Emotional State -- Depression Through study completion, data collected quarterly from 15 to up to 24 months post-separation from the Army The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in Alcohol-related problems Through study completion, data collected quarterly from 15 to up to 24 months post-separation from the Army Short Rutgers Alcohol Problems Index (S-RAPI) (Earleywine, LaBrie \& Pedersen)
Change in Suicidal ideation Through study completion, data collected quarterly from 15 to up to 24 months post-separation from the Army Suicide ideation measure developed by Nock, 2007
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University of Washington
🇺🇸Seattle, Washington, United States