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Testing the Trauma Resilience and Recovery Program for Mental Health After Injury

This study is testing a program called the Trauma Resilience and Recovery Program (TRRP) to see if it can improve access to mental health support for people after a traumatic injury. The TRRP offers education about mental health recovery, risk assessment, and brief interventions at the hospital bedside. It also uses text messages for symptom monitoring, screens for PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) and depression, and helps connect people to mental health services if needed. Researchers want to see how this program compares to standard care over 12 months. You might be able to join if you are at least 16 years old, speak English or Spanish, and are admitted to George Washington University hospital's trauma center after an injury, and screen positive for risk of PTSD or depression. The main goal is to see how much your PTSD symptoms change over 3, 6, and 12 months.

Study design
This is an interventional study comparing the Trauma Resilience and Recovery Program to enhanced usual care. It plans to include 350 participants.
What's involved
You would be assessed for clinical and functional outcomes at 3, 6, and 12 months after starting the study. Some participants from minority groups will also have qualitative interviews.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
Participants will be followed for 12 months after the study begins.

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NCT05497115

Testing a Scalable Model of Care to Improve Patients Access to Mental Health Services After Traumatic Injury

Recruiting
NAAges 16+InterventionalTreatment
Medical University of South Carolina
~350 participants
Updated 2025-09-04 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Trauma Resilience and Recovery Program

At a glance

Recruiting sites
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What they're measuring
Change from Baseline PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 8- item (PCL8-5) at 3-,6-, and 12-month
Measured over Baseline, 3-, 6-, and 12- months post-baseline

Conditions

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Depression

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Where it's being run

1 sites across 1 states
Virginia1

Study leadership

  • Kenneth Ruggiero, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Medical University of South Carolina

Who to contact

Gabriela Becerra, BS
[email protected]
8439982602
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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

English- or Spanish-speaking patients ≥ 16 years old who are admitted to George Washington University hospital's trauma center and screen positive on the Injured Trauma Survivors Screen (which indicates risk for development of posttraumatic stress disorder and/or depression) will be included.

Exclusion

Patients who have a Glasgow Coma Scale score under 13 at hospital admission, moderate to severe cognitive impairment (as measured by the Montreal Cognitive Assessment), active psychosis, or injury that prevents verbal communication (e.g., serious head or spinal cord injury) or is self-inflicted will be excluded. Patients with positive substance use screens via GWU's SBIRT protocol (\~7% of the patient population) will be assessed by the clinical team with reference to severity and recency of substance use problems. We have found at MUSC that a high percentage of patients with SBIRT- positive screens are nevertheless good candidates for TRRP (\>85%), but patients with serious, active substance abuse problems are likely not good candidates for TRRP and therefore will be excluded and referred to a substance use treatment center.

What this trial measures

  • Change from Baseline PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 8- item (PCL8-5) at 3-,6-, and 12-monthBaseline, 3-, 6-, and 12- months post-baseline

    The PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (Weathers et al., 2013) is a self-report measure that assesses the extent to which participants are bothered by the DSM-5 PTSD symptoms. Each symptom is rated on a scale of 0 (not at all) to 4 (extremely). Total scores are obtained by summing the scores of all items. The 8-item adaptation includes assessment of intrusive thoughts, avoidance of external reminders, negative expectations of self/ world, easily startled, emotional cue reactivity, avoidance of thoughts/emotions, loss of interest, and difficulty concentrating. The PCL8-5 has strong psychometric properties and clinical utility data similar to that of the long version.