Clinical trial NCT01502319: Military Suicide Research Consortium
Official title: Military Suicide Research Consortium
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Suicidal and Self-injurious Behaviour
Lead sponsor: VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System
Sponsor class: FED
Collaborators: name: United States Department of Defense
First posted: 2011-12-30
Enrollment: 5400
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Given the age range of active duty military, reservists, and veterans, it is expected that funded Study Principal Investigators will enroll subjects that are young adults (18 to 21 years) to Senior Citizens (over 65 years).

Brief summary: The Consortium's overall mission can be summarized as follows; each function is developed with the goal of clear military relevance:

1. Produce new scientific knowledge about suicidal behavior in the military that improves mental health outcomes for the investigators men and women in uniform.
2. Use high quality research methods and analyses to address problems in policy and practice that have a direct impact on suicide-related and other mental health outcomes for military personnel.
3. Disseminate Consortium knowledge, information, and findings through a variety of methods appropriate for decision makers, practitioners, and others who are accountable for ensuring the mental health of military personnel. This includes the rapid response function so that queries from decision makers and others to the Consortium are answered with speed and efficiency. Technical assistance and support for decision makers and others is an integral aspect of this Consortium function. This aspect of the Consortium will warehouse knowledge about suicidal behavior in general (e.g., from civilian and international sources as well as from military sources), so that military issues can be informed in a comprehensive manner.
4. Train future leaders in military suicide research through experience within a multi-disciplinary setting for Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars interested in research questions on military suicide of both a basic and applied nature.

Detailed description: This is a research consortium responsible for the conduct of a wide range of studies, including clinical trials. All clinical trials funded through the consortium will be registered separately.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* MSRC studies are inclusive of all individuals who are eligible as defined by each study's protocol regardless of age, gender, race or ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and any other demographic characteristics. Measures and treatments are translated and culturally adapted to the extent possible.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Specific to each investigator's protocol.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Suicide
timeFrame: varies by study
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Suicide
timeFrame: varies by study
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Denver
country: United States
facility: Denver VA Medical Center
state: Colorado
Study officials:
affiliation: VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System
name: Peter M Gutierrez, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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