Rebuilding Bridges for Homeless Veterans

Pilot study on an intervention called Rebuilding Bridges to help veterans re-engaged with loved ones.

Study Overview

• Status: Withdrawn
• Conditions: Housing Problems
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Rebuilding Bridges

Detailed Description

The objective of the proposed project is to examine the feasibility and acceptability of the Rebuilding Bridges intervention, which was designed to help homeless Veterans plan and implement steps to engage friends, family and other loved ones in their lives. The PI and his team will enroll approximately 25-30 Veterans. Veterans will be recruited via provider referral and via advertisements that will be placed in general clinical areas and desks at the Errera Center. The PI will work with the Veterans to create a detailed genogram of family, friends and other supporters in the Veteran's life. This will be followed by a meeting with each Veteran over the course of three 30-minute weekly sessions to help the Veteran identify and engage people listed in their genogram which the Veteran might want to form stronger relationships with. Veterans will also be asked to complete several measures and questionnaires such as housing information, employment, mental health and quality of life.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Connecticut
    • West Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06516
      • VA Connecticut Healthcare System

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria

1. Over 18 years old
2. Currently in a VA homeless program
3. Able to provide valid consent

Exclusion Criteria

1. Acute psychiatric decompensation requiring inpatient admission or emergency department services within the last month (suicidality, homicidally, mania, psychotic decompensation)
2. Has a conservator

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: Rebuilding Bridges; This is a one-group study and the group will receive the Rebuilding Bridges intervention	Other: Rebuilding Bridges; Psychosocial intervention to help veterans re-engage with family members called Rebuilding Bridges, developed for this project.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Social Support	2-Way Social Support scale and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, which generates a total score from 1 to 7 with higher scores indicating greater social support	2 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Housing status	Nights stayed in own place and nights homeless in the past 60 days, which should total 60 days.	2 years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: VA Connecticut Healthcare System
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Jack Tsai, PhD, VA Connecticut

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 1, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 10, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): November 10, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 23, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 30, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): November 1, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 17, 2025
• Last Verified: January 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 102317

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No