Integrated Intervention for Caregivers--Pilot RCT

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Distress; Maternal, Self Efficacy, Parenting, Suicide

In brief

Adolescents who have been hospitalized for suicidal behavior are at risk for engaging in additional suicidal behavior. After hospitalization, parents or guardians are typically asked to be responsible for helping to prevent further suicidal behavior. This can include monitoring the youth, making sure the home is safe, getting the youth any needed treatment, and balancing the parents' expectations of the youth with the understanding that the youth is in a vulnerable state. Even with this effort by parents, adolescents often have additional crisis situations. The goal of this study is to develop and test an integrated electronic and care support service intervention for these caregivers of suicidal youth. It is expected that this intervention will help parents/guardians in the roles of caring for suicidal youth after discharge from the hospital. This pilot randomized controlled trial will compare the intervention to enhanced treatment as usual.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03487627

Run by

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

People needed

90

Starts

2021-05-04

Expected to finish

2022-12-14

Last updated by the study team

2022-12-30

Who can join

Age: 13 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Biological, adoptive, or step- parent (step-parent defined as by marriage or live-in partner of at least 5 years) of an adolescent. If an adolescent has more than one parent, investigators will ask parents to designate the primary contact or participant for this study (only one parent for an adolescent may participate).
• The adolescent is 13-19 years of age
• The adolescent was psychiatrically hospitalized due to any range of suicidal behaviors (i.e., suicide attempt, interrupted suicide attempt, aborted suicide attempt) in the last two weeks
• The parent lives with the adolescent
• The parent has a cell phone and is capable of texting (i.e., has knowledge of how to text and has a data plan that allows for texting)

You may not qualify if…

• Parents whose primary language is not English and are unable to read or speak English, as all materials will be initially developed in English only
• Parents who have a reported intellectual disability (per inpatient staff)
• Parents whose adolescent is not discharged directly home (e.g., adolescent is sent to a group home, residential treatment facility, or home of a relative following hospitalization)
• Adolescents who have an intellectual disability (per inpatient staff or as reflected by current school placement) or have active psychosis, as the needs of both parent and youth may be different than those without an intellectual disability or active psychosis and are not specifically addressed in the proposed developing intervention

Where it is running

• Wake Forest Health Sciences — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

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