Mental Health Link for Veterans Referred to Mental Health Services
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Official title
Mental Health Link: Text Based Support for Veterans Waiting to Initiate Mental Health Services for Depression
Brief summary
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Overview: Depression is common among Veterans. About 1 in 6 Veterans experiences depression at any given time, and about half may experience it during their lifetime. Without treatment, depression can contribute to substance use, poor health, suicide, and early death. However, many people delay or do not receive treatment. Fewer than one-third of Veterans with depression use psychotherapy. Although the VA is working to improve access to mental health care, staffing shortages can lead to long wait times. These waiting periods may provide an opportunity to support Veterans and help them prepare for treatment. Mental Health Link: The research team developed Mental Health Link (MHL), a text-based process that supports Veterans while they wait for mental health services. MHL helps patients better understand their emotions and symptoms and offers simple coping strategies they can use right away while waiting. Study Goals: The study will examine whether MHL helps Veterans during the wait period and with treatment engagement. The study will also ask Veterans and providers about what helps or prevents MHL from being used in routine care. Study Design: Over five years, the study will compare MHL with usual care at three VA sites. It will include 192 Veterans referred to psychotherapy for depression. The results will show whether MHL improves participation in treatment and helps Veterans while they wait for services. In the future, these findings may help the VA expand MHL and other effective mental health and suicide-prevention services.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT07934680
- Recruitment status
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 192 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- May 1, 2027 (Estimated)
- Primary completion
- Dec 1, 2031 (Estimated)
- Completion
- Dec 1, 2031 (Estimated)
- Last update posted
- Nov 13, 2026
2027 – 2031
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 3
- U.S. states
- 3
- U.S. cities
- 3
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, CO | Aurora | Colorado | 80045-7211 | — |
| James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL | Tampa | Florida | 33612 | — |
| Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL | Hines | Illinois | 60141-3030 | — |
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted Nov 13, 2026 · Synced Nov 14, 2026
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