NCT06898879Recruiting
Enhancing Veteran-Clinical Collaboration in VA PRRCs
Enhancing Veteran-Clinical Collaboration in VA Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Centers
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 19 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
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.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 119 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 12 Mar 2025
- Start date
- 12 Aug 2026
- Primary completion date
- 3 Apr 2028
- Lead sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
- Diseases
- Schizophrenia, Depression, Bipolar disorder
- NCT number
- NCT06898879
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 119
- From 12 Aug 2026 to the primary completion date, 3 Apr 2028
- 3 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Primary substance use or organic neurological disorder diagnosis determined by chart review
Other
- Are determined by clinician and/or study staff to be at significant risk of exacerbation of symptoms, suicidal ideation, or other risk due to study participation
- Have a history and/or current risk of violence that clinicians and/or study staff determine to be too high risk to manage effectively in the study setting (e.g., poses a risk to Veterans or study staff)
Who the study is looking for
- Be a Veteran currently receiving Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center (PRRC), Mental Health Intensive Case Management (MHICM) and/or Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP) services at VA San Diego, Los Angeles, or Albuquerque (e.g., seen in the clinic in the past month or based on clinic criteria)
- Meet Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) criteria of serious mental illness; i.e., "having (within the past year) a diagnosable mental, behavior, or emotional disorder that causes serious functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities," based on chart review and clinician consultation if needed
- Be fluent and literate in English
- Agree to have a subset of VA mental health treatment appointments audiotaped
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (3)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico VA Health Care System, Albuquerque, NM Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Albuquerque | United States | Recruiting |
| VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Diego | United States | Not yet recruiting |
| VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | West Los Angeles | United States | Not yet recruiting |
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