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Enhancing Veteran-Clinical Collaboration in VA PRRCs
Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development
Summary
Over 60% of Veterans with serious mental illness have a service-connected disability that impairs their ability to work, go to school, and/or have successful personal lives. Although traditional treatments tend to focus on symptom remission, Veterans prioritize a range of treatment goals, including personal empowerment and gaining personally meaningful skills. Increasing Veteran-clinician collaboration can help effectively align care with each Veteran's goals and support an empowering therapeutic experience. This project will evaluate the effectiveness of a group-based intervention intended to increase Veterans' comfort, confidence, knowledge, and skills to collaborate with their treatment teams. Findings from this study will contribute important knowledge about this intervention's effectiveness and how to enhance its effectiveness, especially for Veterans from minoritized groups. If the decision-making intervention is effective, it would help Veterans with serious mental illness, and might also help Veterans with other chronic health conditions, like PTSD and chronic pain.
Official title: Enhancing Veteran-Clinical Collaboration in VA Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Centers
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
119
Start Date
2026-04-01
Completion Date
2029-09-30
Last Updated
2026-02-09
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Collaborative Decision Skills Training
An ten-session group-based skills training intervention that focuses on treatment-related decision-making in order to facilitate improved engagement in decision-making processes. CDST teaches assertiveness skills, problem solving, goal planning, and conflict negotiation, within the context of treatment planning and decision-making. Each session is 60 minutes long.
Leveling Up
An ten-session group intervention that focuses on psychoeducation, befriending, and Veteran to Veteran support. Each session is 60 minutes long.
Locations (3)
VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA
San Diego, California, United States
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA
West Los Angeles, California, United States
New Mexico VA Health Care System, Albuquerque, NM
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States