NCT00870545

Reintegration: The Role of Spouse Telephone BATTLEMIND Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 86 (actual)
• Sponsor: Memphis VA Medical Center · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will expand the Department of Defense (DoD) one time, face-to-face post deployment BATTLEMIND training for spouses of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) Guard/Reserve service members into year-long, telephone groups focusing on education, skills building and support. The goal is to build spouses' resilience to cope with reintegration, help them serve as a support system for returning service members, and ease the transition for families post-deployment.

Conditions

• Military Spouses
• Support Groups
• Stress Disorders
• Combat Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Telephone support groups	There was one intervention. Participants were enrolled in one of 14 telephone groups (each with a trained Group Leader and 6 participants) will focus on education, training in and practice of coping skills and cognitive restructuring (identifying and re-shaping negative and destructive thoughts), and support through 12 hour-long structured sessions. The content, modeled on Soldier BATTLEMIND, targets readjustment concepts based on the letters of BATTLEMIND, including Bonds, Adding and subtracting family roles, Taking control, Talking it out, Loyalty and commitment, Emotional balance, Mental health and readiness, Independence and interdependence, Navigating the system, Denial of self and a concluding session entitled Moving forward.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2011-07-01
• Completion: 2011-11-01
• First posted: 2009-03-27
• Last updated: 2017-06-28
• Results posted: 2013-06-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States