START-VETS: Support for Veterans Leaving Prison
This study, called START-VETS, is developing and testing a prison reentry program for Veterans. It's for Veterans who have recently left prison and are dealing with mental illness and/or substance use disorder. The study aims to understand how this new program, called START-VET, compares to standard care (Treatment as usual) in improving your mental health, quality of life, and thinking patterns related to criminal behavior. We'll measure these changes over 16 weeks. The study is currently unclear on its recruitment status and plans to enroll 20 participants.
- Study design
- This study will involve a two-group randomized crossover pilot study design. It aims to enroll 20 participants.
- What's involved
- You would complete questionnaires about your symptoms, quality of life, and thinking styles at the beginning of the study and every 4 weeks for 16 weeks.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Participants will be followed for 16 weeks after starting the study interventions.
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Successful Transitions and Reintegration Tools for Veterans (START-VETS)
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- James P. LePage, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · VA North Texas Health Care System Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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What this trial measures
- Change in the Brief Symptom Inventory -18The 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.
- Change in the World Health Organization Quality of Life 100The 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.
- Inventory of Criminal Thinking StyleThe 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