Ask Suicide-Screening Questions to Everyone in Medical Settings (asQ em): Development of a Suicide Risk Screening Instrument for Adult Medical Inpatients

Completed

Conditions studied: Questionnaires and Surveys

In brief

Background: \- Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death for U.S. adults. Medically ill people are at an increased risk of suicide. Most people who have killed themselves went to a healthcare provider within 3 months of their death. More and more, hospitals are being asked to assess people for signs of suicide risk so that they can get the help they need. If nurses and doctors can find out who is at risk they can make sure these people get help in the hospital. The asQ em (Ask Suicide-Screening Questions to Everyone in Medical Settings) is a brief questionnaire. It was created to detect suicidal thoughts and behaviors in hospitalized people. Researchers would like to further develop this tool and figure out which are the best questions to ask patients. Objective: \- To determine the best questions for healthcare providers to ask people with medical illnesses to see if they are having suicidal thoughts or planning to hurt themselves. Eligibility: \- NIH Clinical Center patients over age 18. Design: * Participants will be asked questions about how they have been feeling in the past few weeks. They will be asked questions about depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. They also will be asked some background questions. * It will take approximately 15 to 30 minutes to answer the questions.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02140177

Run by

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

People needed

740

Starts

2014-05-14

Expected to finish

2020-02-28

Last updated by the study team

2020-10-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients will be excluded if:
• they are medically or cognitively unable to participate in the screening or assessment (e.g., sustained altered level of consciousness, psychosis, hostile behavior, unremitting distress, intubation, persistent vomiting, severe pain, acute or worsening medical acuity);
• they have been already enrolled during a previous visit;
• they are unwilling to provide consent;
• the patient is non-English speaking (because ASIQ has not been validated in languages other than English).

Where it is running

• Walter Reed National Military Medical Center — Bethesda, Maryland, United States
• National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike — Bethesda, Maryland, United States
• Rhode Island Hospital — Providence, Rhode Island, United States
• John Peter Smith Hospital — Fort Worth, Texas, United States

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