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Effect of Psychosocial Treatment by the Case Manager in Patients After a Suicide Attempt

NCT00664872 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 147

Last updated 2014-01-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the case manager are effective in the treatment of suicide attempters.

Conditions

  • Suicide, Attempted

Interventions

OTHER

proactive psychosocial intervention by care managers

A case manager will be assigned to each of the participants in the intervention group. All case managers are psychologists. After discharge from the emergency department, the participants receive six sessions of proactive psychosocial intervention by their case manager over four months. Duration of each session is approximately 30 minutes. The intervention consists of telephone or face-to-face contacts with the case manager at scheduled intervals or when clinically necessary. If a patient declines medication therapy from the psychiatrist, case manager will provide psychotherapy using the model of cognitive-behavioural approach and problem-solving therapy. Case managers will receive backup and supervision by psychiatrist investigators and monthly supervision of therapy. Case managers will regularly monitor suicide risk, clinical status and provide follow-up.

BEHAVIORAL

case management

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Shen-Ing,Liu

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Shen-Ing Liu, MD.PHD · Department of Psychiatry, Mackay Memorial Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-08-31
Primary Completion
2008-01-31
Completion
2008-07-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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