Developing an Intervention to Promote Lethal Means Safety in Suicidal Adolescents

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Suicide

In brief

Study Objective: to develop a phone-based intervention to aid parents of suicidal adolescents to adhere to lethal means safety. Lethal means counseling is the practice of educating patients and their families about limiting access to items that can be used to attempt suicide. Though lethal means counseling is standard practice in treating suicidal patients, there is little experimental literature related to its utilization across different providers and its efficacy. Further, there is a significant gap in the literature on lethal means counseling as it relates to adolescents. The proposed project will investigate a novel text message-based intervention aimed to promote lethal means safety.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05423483

Run by

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

People needed

61

Starts

2022-09-08

Expected to finish

2024-07-19

Last updated by the study team

2025-03-03

Who can join

Age: 12 and older, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Proficiency in spoken and written English
• Own cell phone that has internet capabilities
• Adolescent participants are patient's at Children's Health SPARC IOP (ages 12-17)
• Adult participants are parents and/or legal guardians of adolescent participants (ages 18+)

You may not qualify if…

• Non-English speaking

Where it is running

• Children's Health — Dallas, Texas, United States

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