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NCT04832802: ACCESS-Vets
Customized Employment for Veterans With Spinal Cord Injury
NA trial testing ACCESS in Spinal Cord Injury in 48 participants. Completed in 1 June 2025.
1 April 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | VA Office of Research and Development |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | health services research |
| Enrollment | 48 |
| Start date | 14 February 2022 |
| Primary completion | 1 April 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 1 June 2025 |
| Sites | 2 locations across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- ACCESS
- IPS
Conditions studied
- Spinal Cord Injury — all drugs for Spinal Cord Injury →
Sponsor
VA Office of Research and Development — full company profile →
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Spinal Cord Injury. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
The reason for conducting this study is to learn about the best ways to help Veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI) gain meaningful employment. Spinal cord injury is a medically complex disability that poses unique barriers to employment for Veterans. Returning to work after SCI improves health and quality of life, which in turn can lower risk for suicide in this high-risk population. Hence, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) supports interventions that help Veterans with SCI return to work and may prevent suicide. Customized employment (CE) is an innovative strategy for tailoring vocational services to meet the needs of people with complex disabilities. To address barriers to employment faced by Veterans with SCI, this study will evaluate whether a customized employment intervention used in non-VA settings can be adapted for use by the VA as a part of SCI medical rehabilitation. The research goal is to evaluate how a CE intervention for Veterans with SCI (ACCESS-Vets) can help them discover their strengths to find and maintain competitive integrated employment in their communities. This study will compare ACCESS-Vets with the usual evidence-based supported employment program, known as Individual Placement and Support (IPS). Veterans with SCI who chose to participate in this study will be randomly selected (i.e. by chance) to work with a vocational rehabilitation specialist as part of the ACCESS-Vets intervention or the usual IPS employment program for about 8 months. Study participants will complete study questionnaires before, during, and after their participation in the employment interventions. Some Veterans and their medical rehabilitation providers will be interviewed about their experiences with the employment interventions. The study expects to find that Veterans who participate in ACCESS-Vets will have better employment and quality of life outcomes then those who participate in IPS. The study will provide information about the strategies used in the ACCESS-Vets and IPS interventions for addressing barriers to employment. Ultimately, this study may provide a model for making VA vocational services for Veterans with SCI more effective and sustainable.
Publications & conference data
No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.
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Trials by the same sponsor.
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04832802 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by VA Office of Research and Development
- Last refreshed: 10 June 2025
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