Family-based Crisis Intervention With Suicidal Adolescents in the ED

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Suicide

In brief

The Family Based Crisis Intervention (FBCI) is an emergency psychiatry intervention designed to sufficiently stabilize suicidal adolescents within a single ED visit so that they may return home safely with their families. This study is a randomized clinical trial of FBCI v. TAU in an urban Emergency Department.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02610309

Run by

Boston Children's Hospital

People needed

143

Starts

2012-01-01

Expected to finish

2014-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-11-20

Who can join

Age: 13 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• adolescent presenting to the ED with suicidality
• presence of a consenting parent or legal guardian with whom the adolescent resided.

You may not qualify if…

• either adolescent or parent/guardian lacked fluency in English;
• adolescent was not medically stable, including intoxication;
• adolescent demonstrated cognitive limitations prohibiting completion of research instruments;
• adolescent presented with active psychosis;
• adolescent required physical or medication restraint in the ED.

Where it is running

• Boston Children's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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