Technology-Assisted Systems Change for Suicide Prevention
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Suicide, Suicide, Attempted
In brief
Effective prevention of suicide among adult emergency department (ED) patients hinges on an indispensable component: the ability to translate evidence-based interventions into routine clinical practice on a broad scale and with fidelity to the intervention components so they can have a maximum public health effect. However, there are critical barriers that prevent such translation, including a lack of trained clinicians, competing priorities in busy EDs, and incompatibility between requirements of evidence-based interventions (such as completing telephone coaching with patients after the ED visit) and the workflow and infrastructure typically present in most EDs. The proposed new intervention will address these barriers by building a suite of technologies that will make it easier to implement the Emergency Department Safety Assessment and Follow-up Evaluation (ED-SAFE), an evidence-based suicide intervention targeting perceived social support, behavioral activation and impulse control, revolutionizing the field's ability to scale and implement this intervention and acting as a model for efforts to implement other existing and emerging suicide interventions.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04720911
- Run by
- University of Massachusetts, Worcester
- People needed
- 47
- Starts
- 2022-02-01
- Expected to finish
- 2022-12-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2024-10-31
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Age ≥18 years
- Presenting to selected emergency departments during the study period
- Screened positive for active suicidal ideation in the past 2 weeks or attempt in the past 6 months
- Has a smartphone and access to the internet
You may not qualify if…
- Cognitively impaired (as assessed by study staff)
- <18 years of age
- Prisoner.
Where it is running
- UMass Chan Medical School — Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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