Rebuilding Bridges for Homeless Veterans

January 17, 2025 updated by: VA Connecticut Healthcare System
Pilot study on an intervention called Rebuilding Bridges to help veterans re-engaged with loved ones.

Study Overview

Status

Withdrawn

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

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

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

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

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.

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

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

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
Time Frame: 2 years
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
Time Frame: 2 years
Nights stayed in own place and nights homeless in the past 60 days, which should total 60 days.
2 years

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

VA Connecticut Healthcare System

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Jack Tsai, PhD, VA Connecticut

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

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

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