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Get Better Together: Relationship Education For Military Couples

No phase Interventional Emotion Regulation Relationship Conflict Suicide Risk Alcohol Use

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What is being studied
The protocol lists: Get Better Together (GBT).
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Emotion Regulation, Relationship Conflict, Suicide Risk, Alcohol Use. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
What needs checking
Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
Where it takes place
United States
Next step
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Official title

Better Together: A Relationship Enrichment Program Targeting Transdiagnostic Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Among Military Couples

Overview

This study is testing a program called Get Better Together, a relationship education program designed to help military couples effectively navigate life stressors as a team. The goal is to find out if attending Get Better Together improves mental health and relationship skills, and reduces problems like alcohol misuse, aggression, and suicide risk. Couples who join the study will be randomly placed into one of two groups. One group will attend Get Better Together at a weekend retreat. The other group will continue their usual activities and later receive access to an online relationship education program. All participants will complete surveys before the retreat and again 2, 4, and 6 months later.

Interventions

  • Behavioral Get Better Together (GBT)
    Get Better Together is a couple-based, primary prevention program designed to reduce risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors, problematic alcohol use, and intimate partner violence by addressing two transdiagnostic drivers: emotion dysregulation and relationship conflict. The intervention is an adaptation of the empirically supported Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP), modified in collaboration with military stakeholders to meet the unique cultural and contextual needs of mi

Primary outcome measures

  • Suicide Cognitions [Time frame: Baseline, 2-month, 4-month, and 6-month follow-up]
  • Alcohol Misuse [Time frame: Baseline, 2-month, 4-month, and 6-month follow-up]
  • Intimate Partner Violence [Time frame: Baseline, 2-month, 4-month, and 6-month follow-up]
Secondary outcome measures (4)
  • Emotion Dysregulation [Time frame: Baseline, 2-month, 4-month, and 6-month follow-up]
  • Relationship Conflict [Time frame: Baseline, 2-month, 4-month, and 6-month follow-up]
  • Interpersonal Emotion Regulation with Romantic Partner [Time frame: Baseline, 2-month, 4-month, and 6-month follow-up]
  • Relationship Functioning [Time frame: Baseline, 2-month, 4-month, and 6-month follow-up]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

  • Couple is in a committed romantic relationship of at least six months
  • At least one partner is a military Service member on active duty
  • Both partners are age 18 or older
  • Couple has not previously attended a relationship enrichment retreat or workshop together (e.g., CREDO, Strong Bonds, BSRT). This does not include couples therapy or pre-marital counseling.

Exclusion criteria

  • One or both partners decline to provide informed consent
  • Required command endorsement for retreat attendance is not received (for Service members E-6 and below)
  • Couple is unable or unwilling to attend any of the scheduled retreats during the study period

Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.

Healthy volunteers: Yes

Study design

Allocation
Randomized
Model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Open label
Primary purpose
Prevention

Study locations

United States · 1 center
  • Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences — Bethesda

Identifiers

NCT: NCT07096271 · USUHS.2022-100 · HT94252410843

Primary sources (government registries)

View this study on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗