Translational Research Center for TBI and Stress Disorders: Virtual Assessment of Deployment Trauma and Rehabilitation

Description

For this clinical demonstration study, Veterans will be assessed with a battery of questionnaires/surveys and a 1:1 clinical interview with a V-TRACTS psychologist to target domains of head injury, psychological trauma, depression, suicidality, anxiety, chronic pain and sleep, substance use and activity level. V-TRACTS will convene a weekly consensus meeting to evaluate all the data, and develop a recommendation plan. After the consensus meeting, a V-TRACTS psychologist will provide comprehensive feedback encompassing the entire assessment battery. Additionally, if warranted, the investigators will offer an optional cognitive assessment, as well as rehabilitation options that the consensus committee targets the individual Veteran's needs and also via VA telehealth or other approved online service. It will be the Veteran's choice whether he/she wants to participate in any one or more of these options.

Conditions

TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), PTSD

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Study overview

For this clinical demonstration study, Veterans will be assessed with a battery of questionnaires/surveys and a 1:1 clinical interview with a V-TRACTS psychologist to target domains of head injury, psychological trauma, depression, suicidality, anxiety, chronic pain and sleep, substance use and activity level. V-TRACTS will convene a weekly consensus meeting to evaluate all the data, and develop a recommendation plan. After the consensus meeting, a V-TRACTS psychologist will provide comprehensive feedback encompassing the entire assessment battery. Additionally, if warranted, the investigators will offer an optional cognitive assessment, as well as rehabilitation options that the consensus committee targets the individual Veteran's needs and also via VA telehealth or other approved online service. It will be the Veteran's choice whether he/she wants to participate in any one or more of these options.

Translational Research Center for TBI and Stress Disorders: Virtual Assessment of Deployment Trauma and Rehabilitation

Translational Research Center for TBI and Stress Disorders: Virtual Assessment of Deployment Trauma and Rehabilitation

Condition
TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Boston

VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02130

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Participants will be post-9/11 Veterans. Critically, formal diagnosis of TBI or PTSD (or any other cognitive/psychiatric condition) is not required. While inclusion criteria do not require any specific diagnosis, we note that TRACTS and STEP-Home Veterans in our previous studies had high rates of both PTSD and mTBI.
  • * 18-70 years old
  • * English-speaking (sessions will be conducted in English)
  • * Agreeing to participate either remotely or in person (i.e., completion of ICF/HIPAA)
  • * Schizophreniform disorder/active psychosis
  • * Active suicidality
  • * Neurological diagnosis (excluding TBI)

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 70 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

VA Boston Healthcare System,

Regina McGlinchey, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, VA Boston Healthcare System

Study Record Dates

2024-12-07