Trial reportPsychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)2013
Telephone monitoring and support after discharge from residential PTSD treatment: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Study of Strategies to Improve Schizophrenia Treatment
Telephone Case Monitoring for Veterans With PTSD
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Audio-Based Care for Managing Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders in Adults: A Systematic Review.Medical care · 2025Pooled it
- Factors Associated With Receipt of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy or Prolonged Exposure Therapy Among Individuals With PTSD.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2019Pooled it
- The effect of telepsychiatric modalities on reduction of readmissions in psychiatric settings: A systematic review.Journal of telemedicine and telecare · 2018Pooled it
- Implementation of treatment guidelines for specialist mental health care.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Psychological therapies for post-traumatic stress disorder and comorbid substance use disorder.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Randomized controlled trial of enhanced telephone monitoring with detoxification patients: 3- and 6-month outcomes.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2019Trial
- Randomized controlled trial of telephone monitoring with psychiatry inpatients with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Trial
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- Substance Use, PTSD Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation Among Veteran Psychiatry Inpatients: A Latent Class Trajectory Analysis.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2021Article
- Posttraumatic stress disorder collaborative care: A quality improvement study in veterans affairs primary care.Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare · 2021Observational
- Measurement of unnecessary psychiatric readmissions in the context of care transition interventions: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2021Article
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- Adoption by VA Residential Programs of Two Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for PTSD: Effect on Patient Outcomes.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2019Observational
- Associations between residential treatment length, PTSD, and outpatient healthcare utilization among veterans.Psychological services · 2018Article
- The Use of Phone Technology in Outpatient Populations: A Systematic Review.The open nursing journal · 2016Article
- The Use of New Communications Technologies to Evaluate and Intervene in Substance Use Disorders.Current behavioral neuroscience reports · 2015Article
- The US framework for understanding, preventing, and caring for the mental health needs of service members who served in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq: a brief review of the issues and the research.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study assessed whether adding a telephone care management protocol to usual aftercare improved the outcomes of veterans in the year after they were discharged from residential treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
methodsIn a multisite randomized controlled trial, 837 veterans entering residential PTSD treatment were assigned to receive either standard outpatient aftercare (N=425) or standard aftercare plus biweekly telephone monitoring and support (N=412) for three months after discharge. Symptoms of PTSD and depression, violence, substance use, and quality of life were assessed by self-report questionnaires at intake, discharge, and four and 12 months postdischarge. Treatment utilization was determined from the Department of Veterans Affairs administrative data.
resultsTelephone case monitors reached 355 participants (86%) by phone at least once and provided an average of 4.5 of the six calls planned. Participants in the telephone care and treatment-as-usual groups showed similar outcomes on all clinical measures. Time to rehospitalization did not differ by condition. In contrast with prior studies reporting poor treatment attendance among veterans, participants in both telephone monitoring and treatment as usual completed a mental health visit an average of once every ten days in the year after discharge. Many participants had continuing problems despite high utilization of outpatient care.
conclusionsTelephone care management had little incremental value for patients who were already high utilizers of mental health services. Telephone care management could potentially be beneficial in settings where patients experience greater barriers to engaging with outpatient mental health care after discharge from inpatient treatment.
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