Remotely-Delivered Benefits Counseling for Service Connection Applicants
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Brief summary
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A significant portion of Veterans who apply for disability benefits have difficulty finding and sustaining employment, and are concerned that working for pay will jeopardize their receipt of service-connection benefits. In a completed clinical trial, Veterans who received Motivational Interview-formatted counseled about opportunities to work and receive service-connection went on to work for pay significantly more often than controls. The proposed clinical trial will test this counseling's efficacy when it is delivered by an automated computer program.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02677428
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 150 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 64 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Dec 1, 2015 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Jul 1, 2019 (Actual)
- Completion
- Nov 1, 2020 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Nov 20, 2020
2015 – 2020
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA Connecticut Healthcare System West Haven Campus, West Haven, CT | West Haven | Connecticut | 06516 | — |
| VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System, Leeds, MA | Leeds | Massachusetts | 01053-9764 | — |
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- Last update posted Nov 20, 2020 · Synced Oct 23, 2026
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