Impact of VVV Group for Veterans With SMI
Veterans with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) struggle with social integration - participation in work, housing, and citizenship - due to symptoms, stigma, and psychosocial challenges. Despite considerable VA efforts to provide mental health care to Veterans with SMI, programs that promote social integration are lacking. Veterans with SMI are at especially high risk for poor social integration and suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic. This project addresses this need with a group-based, peer specialist (PS) co-facilitated psychosocial intervention for Veterans with SMI, called "Veteran Voices and Visions" (VVV). VVV targets Veterans with SMI who experience psychosis, a group particularly in need of support with social integration. Virtual VVV groups are co-led by VA mental health clinicians (MHCs) and PSs via online video conference. The approach facilitates group cohesion around and normalization of the common psychotic symptoms of SMI: hallucinations, delusions, and social isolation. This intervention has the potential to create and foster a supportive community that improves the social integration of participants by reducing their distress and self-stigma, and increasing self-efficacy.
Conditions:
🦠 Psychotic Disorders 🦠 Veterans
🗓️ Study Start (Actual) 18 March 2024
🗓️ Primary Completion (Estimated) 31 October 2024
✅ Study Completion (Estimated) 31 October 2024
👥 Enrollment (Estimated) 48
🔬 Study Type INTERVENTIONAL
📊 Phase NA
Locations:
📍 West Los Angeles, California, United States

📋 Eligibility Criteria

Description

    Inclusion Criteria:

    • * DSM 5 diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar with psychosis, depression with psychosis, unspecified psychosis

    Exclusion Criteria:

    • * Substance-induced psychosis,
    • * clinically significant neurological disease,
    • * history of serious head injury with loss of consciousness \> 1 hour.
Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years to N/A (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

🗓️ Study Record Dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Registration Dates

  • First Submitted 27 September 2022
  • First Submitted that Met QC Criteria 27 September 2022
  • First Posted 3 October 2022

Study Record Updates

  • Last Update Submitted that Met QC Criteria 20 March 2024
  • Last Update Posted 22 March 2024
  • Last Verified March 2024