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SAFER: A Brief Intervention Involving Family Members in Suicide Safety Planning

NCT03034863 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 78

Last updated 2021-12-10

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Summary

The management of suicide risk is a pressing national public health issue especially among Veterans, and there exist no guidelines of how best to involve family members in this effort. This proposal will integrate family and couples communication skills training with suicide safety planning. The goal is for the sharing of Veteran suicide safety plans with family members and the construction of a parallel family member safety plan, in efforts to mobilize and support family involvement.

Conditions

  • Suicide

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Safe Actions for Families to Encourage Recovery

A novel, 5-session intervention to enhance currently mandated VA suicide safety planning by involving family members to support its implementation. Incorporation of education about suicide risk factors and teaching communication skills of active listening and making a positive request will supply Veterans and family members with the knowledge and tools needed to 1) identify potential warning signs, and 2) discuss Veteran ideation or family concerns with assurance that such requests will be listened to with validation and support, creating an ally for the suicidal Veteran in his struggle. As discussed above, research has demonstrated compellingly that suicidal desire is motivated by two interpersonal factors; perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness. SAFER aims to increase family support for the Veteran to directly mitigate Veteran loneliness and sense of being a burden to others.

BEHAVIORAL

Individual Safety Planning Intervention

The comparison condition will be an assessment-only enhanced treatment-as-usual intervention called the Individual Safety Planning Intervention (I-SPI).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Marianne S. Goodman, MD · James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
89 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-07-03
Primary Completion
2019-12-31
Completion
2020-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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