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NCT Number: NCT03646149

Improving Housing Outcomes for Homeless Veterans

Many homeless Veterans with serious mental illness (SMI) enroll in the VA's Supported Housing (VASH) program but struggle to obtain and sustain housing. Social skills are an important-but underappreciated-determinant of housing outcomes for homeless adults. The investigators hypothesize that homeless Veterans with SMI who participate in a social skills training program, tailored for housing-related social skills, will obtain housing quicker, retain housing longer, and show improved mental health outcomes compared to Veterans with similar needs not participating in such a program.

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Key information

Conditions

Veterans Behavior Homeless Persons Mentally Ill Persons Social Behavior Social Skills

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA

West Los Angeles, California, 90073-1003, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Identified by VA Greater Los Angeles homeless program staff as a participant in Housing Skills Training:
  • Must have a history of homelessness
  • Must be a Veteran over the age of 18 years
  • Must have a serious mental illness (mood disorder, anxiety disorder, psychotic disorder)

Exclusion criteria

None

Treatment and study plan

Housing Skills Training Group

Behavioral

12-session social skills training group for persons with homeless experiences and serious mental illness delivered once a week for 12 weeks

Primary outcomes

  1. Client Satisfaction Questionnaire - 8

    Time frame: 12 weeks after baseline assessment at start of intervention

    Acceptability of the intervention to participants Scores range from 8 to 32, with higher values indicating higher satisfaction (no specific cut-offs to indicate specific levels of satisfaction)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Percent Days Housed for One Year After Intervention Completion

    Time frame: 1 year

    We will use the medical record, augmented by the residential time line follow back, to assess longitudinal housing outcomes for Veterans receiving this intervention

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

VA Office of Research and Development

Fed

Registry information

Official study title

Improving Housing Outcomes for Homeless Veterans (CDA 15-074)

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2022
Study completion
2022
First posted
Aug 24, 2018
Registry last updated
Jul 19, 2024

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