Status:
COMPLETED
Evaluating the Use of Peer Specialists to Deliver Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training
Lead Sponsor:
VA Office of Research and Development
Conditions:
Serious Mental Illness
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is advocating that Veterans with serious mental illness (SMI) receive recovery-oriented, rehabilitation approaches that target real-world functioning. One such...
Detailed Description
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is advocating that Veterans with serious mental illness (SMI) receive recovery-oriented, rehabilitation approaches that target real-world functioning. One such...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Voluntary informed consent (must be able to be given by the patient)
- Primary diagnosis of SMI documented in the medical record
- schizophrenia
- schizoaffective disorder
- bipolar disorder with psychotic features
- Fluent in English so as to be able to complete testing
Exclusion
- Medication changes in the prior month
- Current or recent (within the past year) CBSST, CBT, or SST (so any skill knowledge and any improvement in outcome can be attributed to SST- or CBSST-Peer rather than participation in other forms of current or recent CBT or SST interventions)
- Level of care at baseline that interferes with outpatient participation
- Current hospitalization for psychiatric, substance use or physical illness
- hospitalized subjects will be invited to participate 1 month after discharge
- Severe and/or unstable mental illness as indicated during informed consent process by inability to pass the Blessed measure in the first visit
- Cognitive impairment as indicated by inability to pass the 10 item T/F measure about informed consent
- Women who are pregnant will be excluded from this study
- Incarcerated Veterans will be excluded from this study
- Veterans with impaired decision making capabilities will be excluded from this study
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 15 2018
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
September 30 2025
Estimated Enrollment :
191 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03467243
Start Date
August 15 2018
End Date
September 30 2025
Last Update
October 20 2025
Active Locations (1)
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VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System University Drive Division, Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15240