Enhancing Resiliency and Optimizing Readiness in Military Personnel
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorThe University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
About this trial
Security Force Assistance Brigades (SFABs) are specialized United States Army units formed to train, advise, assist, enable and accompany operations with allied and partner nations. Security Force Assistance Brigades are composed of roughly 800 senior military personnel, primarily commissioned and non-commissioned officers selected from regular Army units across a wide range of military specialties. Because of the high operational tempo (OPTEMPO) of these units, individual resiliency is of utmost importance in maintaining readiness to successfully execute critical, high-stress missions. Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) is an evidence-based intervention with strong potential to enhance resiliency by bolstering psychological flexibility along with other factors which have been demonstrated to optimize individual and group performance. This project will compare an Acceptance and Commitment Training-based resiliency-enhancement training program as compared to training as usual in 600 3rd Security Force Assistance Brigades soldiers stationed at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. Assessment measures related to resilience will be administered before and after training as well as before and after deployment. Assessments will be conducted at baseline, and every 4 months thereafter for a total of 16-months.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Adult 18 or older
Male or female soldiers assigned to the 3rd SFAB
Disqualifiers
None
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Psychological Flexibility Training (PFT)
BehavioralA 2-day workshop lasting approximately 8 hours per day. Day 1: an overview of the training and to describe the posture or stance that prepares one to respond to challenging situations in a psychologically flexible manner. Day 2: identifies common coping strategies that typically fail or even "backfire" over the long term and to practice skills that promote psychological flexibility. Experiential exercises will be integrated throughout the training. Following the PFT, 4 optional, monthly, one-hour booster sessions to supply refresher information. * An experiential exercise to highlight one or more process/concept that was introduced during the 2-day training. * Questions from the attendees about applying the concepts in their lives. * Comments and questions from the booster session facilitators to encourage application of the concepts.
Treatment groups
600 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsGroup A: Training as usualNo intervention 0 interventions
Group B: Training as usual with psychological flexibility trainingActive comparator 1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC)
Change in score on a 10-item questionnaire examining attitudes toward coping with adversity. Items require respondents to indicate their degree of endorsement on 5-point scales ranging from 0 ("not true at all") through 4 ("true nearly all the time"; e.g., "Having to cope with stress makes me stronger"). Score ranges are from 0 to 40, with a lower score indicating less coping ability.
Time frame
Baseline to 16 monthsSponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov