Recruiting

SFA

Sponsor:

University of Texas at Austin

Code:

NCT07177014

Conditions

Occupational Health

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Stress First Aid (SFA)

Study Details

Brief summary:

Test the effectiveness of SFA adapted for the substance use outreach workforce compared to a no treatment control condition on social-support and burnout of HRWs in a cluster-randomized hybrid type I trial.

Conditions

Occupational Health

Study ID

NCT07177014

Start date

Dec 5, 2025

Status verified date

Feb, 2026

Completion date

Feb 28, 2029

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Feb 28, 2029

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • At least 18 years of age
  • In a paid or volunteer role as a substance use outreach worker or community health/outreach worker (whose work includes substance use outreach) with people who use drugs within TX, LA, AR, OK, NM and tribal areas
  • Able and willing to provide informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

\- Inability to provide consent

Study Design

Enrollment

500 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

no intervention: No Treatment

Control: No Treatment

experimental: Stress First Aid (SFA)

Treatment group receives Stress First Aid for the Substance Use Outreach Workforce, a 2-hour training and up to six virtual 30-minute monthly learning collaborative meetings.

Interventions

Stress First Aid (SFA)

Stress First Aid for the Substance Use Outreach Workforce is a 2-hour training and up to six virtual 30-minute monthly learning collaborative meetings.

Primary outcome measure

  • Change from Baseline in the Mean Overall Burnout Assessed by the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory at 2 Months [ Time Frame: From enrollment to 2 months after the intervention training ]
  • Change from Baseline in the Mean Overall Social Support Assessed by the Job Content Questionnaire Social Support Sub-Scale at 2 Months [ Time Frame: From enrollment to 2 months after the intervention training ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Project Coordinator

512-495-5277SFA@austin.utexas.edu

Outreach Coordinator

SFA@austin.utexas.edu

Locations

The University of Texas at Austin

Recruiting

Austin, Texas, United States, 78712

More Information

Sponsor

University of Texas at Austin

Last update posted

Mar 3, 2026

Last verified

Feb, 2026

Keywords

  • Stress First Aid
  • Persons who use drugs
  • overdose prevention
  • community outreach workers
  • substance use outreach workers

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Texas at Austin on 2026-03-03.