NCT01121250

Spouse READI (Resilience Education And Deployment Information) Post Deployment Telephone Support Groups

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 228 (actual)
• Sponsor: Memphis VA Medical Center · Federal
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This 12-month study is for spouses or significant others of service members who have returned from Afghanistan or Iraq. This study will determine if participating in a telephone discussion group, offering education, skills building, and support, will help increase post-deployment adjustment. There will be 225 spouses recruited for this study.

Conditions

• Spouses
• Military Personnel
• Coping Skills

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Telephone Discussion Groups	Each telephone discussion group will meet 12 times during six months. The one-hour calls will be semi-structured conference calls with education, training in coping skills and cognitive restructuring, and support. A Participant Workbook will include comprehensive materials for all sessions and topics, other resources, and red flag resources - areas that may exacerbate problems, add a level of difficulty or distress, and/or indicate a need for referrals (e.g., unsafe behaviors, substance abuse, spouse abuse, PTSD, depression, traumatic brain injury).
BEHAVIORAL	Education sessions	Participants will have 12 sessions (delivered using slides and telephone) that cover the same education content, without skills building or support, over six months. They will also receive the Participant Workbook.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-10-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2015-02-01
• First posted: 2010-05-12
• Last updated: 2018-07-30
• Results posted: 2018-07-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States