Clinical trials: Veteran
Stress, Psychological, Stress Disorders, Traumatic
Promoting Resiliency in Veteran Families With Young Children
Family-centered prevention services for civilian dwelling military (CDM) families \& children are rarely available in civilian communities or often framed around mental disorders and family deficits.
- Conditions
- Stress, Psychological, Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Regulation, Self, Behavior, Child
- Trial name
- FOCUS-EC (NCT04598100)
- Testing
- FOCUS-EC
- Volunteers
- 199 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Lung Cancer
Co-Design and Pilot Testing of Peer-led Community Outreach to Improve Equity, Veteran-Centeredness and Uptake of Lung Cancer Screening
Co-design will be implemented to develop an innovative, Veteran-centered intervention (Vet Peer Connects program) that meets the needs of Black Veterans.
- Trial name
- VPC (NCT06389981)
- Testing
- Veterans peer connect Program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 3 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
PTSD
Primary Care-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Veterans With PTSD
Primary care patients typically do not receive adequate PTSD treatment because of their reluctance to engage in empirically-supported treatments offered in specialty care settings.
- Trial name
- NCT02399696
- Testing
- Primary Care-Brief Mindfulness Program, Primary Care-Treatment as Usual
- Volunteers
- 62 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Syracuse VA Medical Center
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Perceptions of MDMA-Assisted Therapy Among Veterans With PTSD
The goal of this exploratory, mixed-method design study is to gather qualitative and quantitative data obtained through interviews and questionnaires with veterans who are currently enrolled at the VA for healthcare.
- Trial name
- PMATAVP (NCT05895318)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Albany Research Institute, Inc.
Football, Injury
The Relationship Between Training Dynamics and General Health Status in Veteran Football Players
The goal of this observational study is to learn how training habits and general health status are related to injury risk in veteran football players (men over 35 years old who play recreational football).
- Conditions
- Football, Injury, Veteran
- Trial name
- NCT07027592
- Testing
- Survey Study
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 130 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Izmir Bakircay University
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury
An Exploration of the Relationship Between Chronic Pain and Suicide Attempt Among Veterans
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between attempted and/or completed suicide and reported experience of chronic pain among an adult veteran population.
- Conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Suicide Attempt
- Trial name
- NCT01502436
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 230 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System
Persian Gulf Syndrome, Occupational Exposure
Investigate Olfactory Functioning as a Possible Proxy for Neurotoxic Exposure in Cohorts of Deployed and Non-Deployed Gulf War-Era Veterans.
Significant subsets of military veterans have reported such health problems as headache, joint pain, fatigue, and memory/concentration difficulties subsequent to their participation in the Gulf War.
- Trial name
- NCT00007514
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Other Drug Substance Abuse
Iwin: Individual Well-Being Navigator
The overarching objective of this proposal is to conduct a randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the Individual Well-Being Navigator (Iwin) mobile application, a substance abuse prevention and well-being enhancement…
- Trial name
- NCT02823535
- Testing
- Iwin: Individual Well-Being Navigator
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 253 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pro-Change Behavior Systems
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Tinnitus
Neurobiological Similarities of Tinnitus and PTSD
Psychiatric distress caused by PTSD may increase attention toward tinnitus, as well as perceived loudness and discomfort. It is important to understand how tinnitus-related distress and PTSD negatively interact together, in order…
- Trial name
- NCT05981391
- Testing
- resting-state functional MRI, Clinician Administered PTSD Scale for the DSM-5 (CAPS-5), Tympanometry
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 64 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Insomnia, Alcohol Use Disorder
CBT-I on Alcohol Treatment Outcomes Among Veterans
Project SAVE aims to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and initial efficacy of a CBT-I supplement to alcohol treatment of Veterans.
- Trial name
- Project SAVE (NCT03806491)
- Testing
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia, Sleep Hygiene, Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment as Usual
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 67 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Missouri-Columbia
Persian Gulf Syndrome, Mycoplasma Infections
Antibiotic Treatment of Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses
In 1990 and 1991, the U.S. deployed approximately 700,000 troops to the Persian Gulf to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation. While there were few casualties associated with the Gulf War, many individuals returned from this…
- Trial name
- NCT00007735
- Where
- 27 sites in United States, Puerto Rico
- Volunteers
- 450 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Postural Balance, Accidental Falls
Improving Balance and Mobility
Falls are dangerous leading to injuries and even death. The VA has made fall prevention a priority, but effective programs only reduce falls by 30%.
- Conditions
- Postural Balance, Accidental Falls, Mobility Limitation
- Trial name
- MMBI (NCT02374463)
- Testing
- MMBI, Tai Chi
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 41 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Anger, Aggression
Mindfulness for Anger in Veterans With PTSD
Research has consistently shown that Veterans with PTSD are more likely to experience higher levels of anger and commit aggressive acts compared to Veterans without PTSD.
- Trial name
- NCT02882802
- Testing
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Trauma Recovery Education Class
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 61 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Advance Directives
Enabling Advance Directive Completion
Objectives: The objectives of the pilot study were to (1) test the feasibility of recruitment, randomization, and retention; (2) test the feasibility of a standardized Nurse-Supported Advance Care Planning Intervention; (3)…
- Trial name
- EADCRAV (NCT01746368)
- Testing
- The Nurse-Supported Advance Care Planning Intervention, Care-as-Usual
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Employment
Assessing Supported Employment With Veterans With Felony Convictions and Mental Illness or Substance Abuse
This study continues to develop and refine best practices in the delivery of vocational services to veterans with histories of felony convictions and mental health/substance abuse difficulties.
- Trial name
- NCT01629953
- Testing
- Group vocational intervention, Supported Employment Condition
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 140 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Subthreshold PTSD
GETSmart: Guided Education and Training Via Smart Phones to Promote Resilience
There is no question that combat and domestic attacks can be stressful, and can have effects that last for months or even years, including reliving some of the events through nightmares or flashbacks, wanting to avoid anything…
- Trial name
- GETSmart (NCT02170194)
- Testing
- Resilience Enhancement Training via Smart Phone, Daily Text Messages
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 144 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury
Multisite RCT of STEP-Home: A Transdiagnostic Skill-based Community Reintegration Workshop
In this proposal, the investigators extend their previous SPiRE feasibility and preliminary effectiveness study to examine STEP-Home efficacy in a RCT design.
- Conditions
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Substance Related Disorders, Depression
- Trial name
- STEP-Home (NCT03868930)
- Testing
- STEP-Home, PCGT
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 221 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Cigarette Smoking
Improving the Delivery of Smoking Cessation Guidelines in Hospitalized Veterans
The primary objective of this study is to determine whether a nurse-initiated intervention, which couples brief inpatient counseling and proactive telephone counseling by a centralized tobacco quitline, improves 6-month cessation…
- Trial name
- NCT00816036
- Testing
- Smoking Cessation Guideline Implementation
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 898 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Mental Health, Suicide
Public Messaging to Increase Treatment Seeking for Veterans at Risk for Suicide
The risk for suicide increases by nearly 50% in the first year that service members transition from the military to civilian life underscoring the need for effective strategies to facilitate help seeking among Veterans vulnerable…
- Trial name
- NCT04784663
- Testing
- Messaging, Wait list control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 355 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Smoking
Cell Phone-Based Expert Systems for Smoking Cessation
This project aims to enhance the emotional and physical well-being of veterans through the reduction of smoking by utilizing a web-based, computerized tailored intervention (CTI) with feedback messages delivered via cell phone.
- Trial name
- TXT (NCT01454999)
- Testing
- CTI
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 446 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Pacific Islands Health Care System