NCT05996419

Intervention to Reduce Safety Behaviors

Improving Psychosocial Functioning Among Veterans With Social Anxiety: A Pilot Evaluation of Self-Monitoring Intervention to Reduce Safety Behaviors

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Social anxiety is associated with significant deficits in social and occupational functioning. The proposed study seeks to evaluate the feasibility of implementing a brief text-based intervention for decreasing social anxiety related safety behaviors among Veterans attempting to re-integrate into the workforce. Findings from this pilot will support a larger randomized controlled study examining the efficacy of the intervention for improving functional outcomes and quality of life among Veterans.

Conditions

• Social Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	DSB-I	Participant will receive text message every other day during active phase (30days) via ANNIE text messaging app related to the safety behaviors they identified prior to start.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-07-01
• Primary completion: 2025-11-28
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2023-08-18
• Last updated: 2026-01-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States