The "AIM Study": Investigating Whether Actigraphy and Ideation Measures Can Promote Patient Safety
Completed
Conditions studied: Suicidal Ideation, Suicidal Behavior, Mental Health Symptoms, Mental Health Hospitalizations
In brief
This is a research project looking at whether measuring movements or responses to certain questions can help predict suicidal thoughts or actions. This project has two parts: The first part will occur while the participant is receiving hospitalized at the Bedford VA Hospital. It involves wearing a watch-like device on his/her wrist and answering questions or doing tasks to measure mood and other mental health symptoms, and suicidal thoughts. In the second phase, the investigators will call the participant around 12 months after s/he has left the hospital. The investigators will discuss how s/he is doing and if s/he has had suicidal thoughts or made suicidal acts.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03080168
- Run by
- VA Office of Research and Development
- People needed
- 220
- Starts
- 2017-02-21
- Expected to finish
- 2021-04-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2021-04-05
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- age 18 years or older and endorsing either suicidal ideation upon admission or within the last 7 days, or endorsing (or otherwise documented) suicidal behavior within the past 14 days before admission; OR
- age 18 years or older and undergoing alcohol detoxification (including patients who qualify under #1 and are undergoing alcohol detoxification).
You may not qualify if…
- presence of a primary psychotic disorder [schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, psychosis not otherwise specified, and other psychoses] diagnosis on admission; or major depressive disorder with psychosis, or current hallucinations or ideas of reference, endorsing current psychotic thinking on the Psychosis Screen measure
- presence of a flag specifying a history of disruptive or violent behavior, or, if found during review of elements of the patient's chart prior to study enrollment, indication of a history of violent behavior towards staff, caregivers, or other patients in the patient's record, or if discussion with hospital staff indicates the potential participant's mental status is unstable enough or hostile enough to raise concerns about assaultive behavior
- Prisoner (of federal, state, or local authorities)
- Currently admitted to 78G under an involuntary commitment (e.g., "Section 12"). Specifically, no patients will be enrolled as participants who were committed to the inpatient unit involuntarily who has not chosen voluntarily to change their status to that of a voluntarily admitted patient (ie., signed a "Conditional Voluntary" form)
- Interviewer or Hospital staff-suspected or chart-documented presence of mental retardation (IQ <70) or other DSM-IV organic mental disorder (e.g., including Alzheimer's dementia)
- acute alcohol or drug intoxication or any delirium
- receiving alcohol detoxification treatment [for Primary Analysis]
- women who are pregnant
- patients undergoing detoxification for opiates
Where it is running
- Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA — Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
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