Text-messaging Intervention to Support Parents After Their Child's Psychiatric Emergency

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Conditions studied: Parents, Self Efficacy, Mental Health Literacy, Psychiatric Emergency

In brief

This grant aims to develop and test a text-messaging intervention for parents of children and teens evaluated in the emergency department for a psychiatric emergency and discharged home with outpatient referrals. The intervention for parents will teach parents skills to navigate the mental health services system and build their self-efficacy in managing their child's mental health. This research has the potential to improve services for families seeking emergency psychiatric support, with the goal of facilitating treatment engagement and reducing emergency services utilization using scalable, cost-effective, accessible tools.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06456762

Run by

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

People needed

90

Starts

2024-08-01

Expected to finish

2026-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2025-11-10

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Parents or legal guardians of a child ages 11-17;
• Parents or legal guardians must live with their child ≥50% of the time;
• Child must be admitted to the pediatric emergency department for a mental health crisis;
• Child must be discharged home from the emergency department with referrals to outpatient care.

You may not qualify if…

• Do not have daily access to a mobile phone that can receive SMS text messages;
• Do not speak and read fluently in English.

Where it is running

• Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States (enrolling)

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