EBQI Strategies for Women's Health
(EMPOWER Trial)
What You Need to Know Before You Apply
What is the purpose of this trial?
Women Veterans are the fastest growing segment of VA users, with most users in midlife. This dramatic growth has created challenges for VA to ensure that appropriate services are available to meet women Veterans' needs, and that they will want and be able to use those services. Furthermore, few VA improvement efforts have focused on women Veterans' health and health care in midlife. The EMPOWER QUERI 3.0 Program is a cluster randomized type 3 hybrid implementation-effectiveness trial testing two strategies designed to support implementation and sustainment of evidence-based practices for women Veterans in at least 18 VA facilities from 4 regions.
Who Is on the Research Team?
Alison B Hamilton, PhD MPH
Principal Investigator
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA
Melissa M Farmer Coste, PhD MS
Principal Investigator
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Sepulveda, CA
Erin P Finley, PhD MPH
Principal Investigator
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA
Bevanne A Bean-Mayberry, MD MHS
Principal Investigator
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA
Are You a Good Fit for This Trial?
This trial is not for individual patients but for VA facilities that support women Veterans' health services. Facilities must have leadership backing and meet certain preconditions to participate in the study, which focuses on midlife women Veterans.Inclusion Criteria
Timeline for a Trial Participant
Screening
Participants are screened for eligibility to participate in the trial
Implementation
Implementation of three evidence-based practices (EBPs) including Trauma-Informed Care, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Symptoms of Menopause, and Women's MOVE! program
Follow-up
Participants are monitored for engagement and effectiveness of the implemented EBPs
What Are the Treatments Tested in This Trial?
Interventions
- EBQI Booster
- EBQI Booster + External Facilitation
Trial Overview
The EMPOWER QUERI 3.0 Program is testing two strategies (EBQI Booster and EBQI Booster + External Facilitation) across VA facilities to improve and sustain evidence-based practices for the health of midlife women Veterans.
How Is the Trial Designed?
2
Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
A two-hour EBQI Booster delivered virtually to site-identified QI champions and local implementation teams for each EBP reviewing key EBQI components and providing examples grounded in the EBPs, plus 12 months of external facilitation.
A two-hour EBQI Booster delivered virtually to site-identified QI champions and local implementation teams for each EBP reviewing key EBQI components and providing examples grounded in the EBPs.
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Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?
VA Office of Research and Development
Lead Sponsor
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