NCT07397195Not yet recruiting
ACT for Veterans With IBD and Mental Health Challenges
Using Acceptance and Commitment Training to Promote Rehabilitation and Engagement in Values-Centered Living in Veterans Adapting to Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Mental Health Challenges (RECLAIM)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 9 Feb 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Many Veterans with gastrointestinal disorders, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), also have mental health conditions. IBD and mental health conditions can worsen one another through the brain-gut axis, leading to dramatic deficits in psychosocial functioning and quality of life (QOL). Yet, few Veterans with comorbid IBD and mental health conditions receive psychotherapy and no evidence-based psychotherapies have been tested in Veterans with these comorbidities. Adapting brief acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to the specific to the needs of these patients and embedding treatment into routine gastroenterology care may increase Veterans' access to efficient and effective rehabilitative care. This study aims to adapt and test an integrated, 1-Day ACT intervention tailored to the specific needs of Veterans with IBD and mental health conditions to improve psychosocial functioning and QOL.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 50 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 2 Feb 2026
- Start date
- 1 Jan 2028
- Primary completion date
- 31 Jan 2030
- Lead sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
- Diseases
- Crohn's disease, Ulcerative colitis
- NCT number
- NCT07397195
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 50
- From 1 Jan 2028 to the primary completion date, 31 Jan 2030
- 1 site 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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Prior treatment
- Severe IBD symptoms that would prevent full participation in the study (i.e., hospitalized in the past 30 days, surgery in the past 30 days)
Other illness
- Significant cognitive impairment
- Uncontrolled psychosis or bipolar disorder
Other
- Active suicidality
Who the study is looking for
- Diagnosis of IBD as confirmed by the medical record
- Current diagnosis of a depressive, anxiety, or trauma-related disorder
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Unknown status |
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