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

ConditionsSubstance Use DisorderMental IllnessRecently Incarcerated
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorVA Office of Research and Development

About this trial

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

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

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

Disqualifiers

Psychosis or cognitive impairment precluding active participation

Trial design

Design model

Crossover

Treatments tested in this trial

  • START-VET

    Behavioral

    prison reentry program

  • Treatment as usual

    Other intervention

    This intervention involves no additional services above what is provided by the local health care system

Treatment groups

20 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Monitoring/Treatment as usualNo intervention 0 interventions
Group B: Reentry ProgramActive comparator 2 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Change in the Brief Symptom Inventory -18

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.

Time frame
The Brief Symptom Inventory will be administered at the baseline of the subject's participation and again every 4 weeks for 16 weeks.
2

Change in the World Health Organization Quality of Life 100

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.

Time frame
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.
3

Inventory of Criminal Thinking Style

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

Time frame
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.

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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VA Office of Research and Development

Lead sponsor

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