The REACH Intervention for Caregivers of Veterans and Service Members With TBI

Description

This randomized waitlist control trial will evaluate the effects of a psychoeducational intervention called Resources for Enhancing All Caregivers' Health - Traumatic Brain Injury (REACH TBI) to decrease caregiver strain (primary outcome) and improve caregiver self-efficacy, anxiety, depression, and health care frustrations (secondary outcomes). This study will modify and adapt an award-winning caregiver intervention, Resources for Enhancing All Caregivers Health in the Department of Veterans Affairs (REACH VA), to support the needs of Caregivers of Veterans and Service Members with TBI.

Conditions

Traumatic Brain Injury, Caregiver

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Study overview

This randomized waitlist control trial will evaluate the effects of a psychoeducational intervention called Resources for Enhancing All Caregivers' Health - Traumatic Brain Injury (REACH TBI) to decrease caregiver strain (primary outcome) and improve caregiver self-efficacy, anxiety, depression, and health care frustrations (secondary outcomes). This study will modify and adapt an award-winning caregiver intervention, Resources for Enhancing All Caregivers Health in the Department of Veterans Affairs (REACH VA), to support the needs of Caregivers of Veterans and Service Members with TBI.

The REACH Intervention for Caregivers of Veterans and Service Members With TBI: Efficacy and Implementation Planning Across the VA Polytrauma System of Care

The REACH Intervention for Caregivers of Veterans and Service Members With TBI

Condition
Traumatic Brain Injury
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Tampa

Tampa VA Medical Center, Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612

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

  • * identify as a primary caregiver for a V/SM who sustained a TBI at least 6 months prior;
  • * identify as a primary caregiver who has provided care for a V/SM with TBI for at least 6 months;
  • * provide some level of daily supervision or assistance with either a physical, cognitive, or behavioral issue they think is likely related to TBI;
  • * believe that at least half of their caregiving responsibilities are likely related to TBI rather than another health condition(s); and
  • * endorse a score of at least high burden (a score of 8 or higher) on the Zarit Burden Inventory-4.
  • * no telephone;
  • * current diagnosis of schizophrenia or other major mental illness;
  • * auditory impairment that would make telephone use difficult; or
  • * the caregiver believes that more than half of their caregiving for the V/SM is for issues related to another health condition(s) rather than TBI.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Virginia,

Study Record Dates

2026-08