NCT04463225

The Network Study: Soldiers Connecting for Work and Health

Patterns of Alcohol Use and Suicide-related Thoughts Among Recently Discharged Veterans: Risk Factors Associated With the Military-to-Veteran Transition

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 450 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cornell University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 62 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will examine the efficacy of an internet-based brief intervention designed to reduce risky behavior in Soldiers as they transition from Active Duty into the civilian workforce as a Veteran. Up to 700 soldiers intending to separate from the Army will be recruited, with the intention of drawing a final sample of 450 participants. Study participants will be randomly assigned to either the intervention or the control group, stratified by age and gender.

Detailed description

The combination of alcohol use and negative emotional states is a particularly toxic combination for suicide risk. The current study examines changes in alcohol/drug use/misuse and depression as soldiers undergo the transition from Active Duty to Veteran and offers a personalized internet-based brief intervention intended to prevent/reduce alcohol misuse and depression in this population. The study's objectives are to empirically quantify the form of changes that occur with respect to alcohol use and depression over the transition; to identify stable individual risk factors (e.g., personality, military experiences) and dynamic risk factors (e.g., changes in stressors and normative contexts over time) that may be associated with differential temporal patterns of suicide-related behavior (i.e., alcohol use/misuse) and cognition (i.e., depression); and lastly, to determine whether a simple, internet-delivered brief intervention shown can reduce risky behavior in the transitioning Veteran population.

Conditions

• Alcohol Use Disorder
• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Internet-Delivered Brief Intervention	The internet-delivered brief intervention developed for the study can be accessed via computers and mobile devices.. The intervention will employ assessment data to give study participants feedback on their drinking behavior and offer strategies to avoid risky behavior.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-03-30
• Primary completion: 2024-02-28
• Completion: 2024-03-31
• First posted: 2020-07-09
• Last updated: 2023-05-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States