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The "AIM Study": Investigating Whether Actigraphy and Ideation Measures Can Promote Patient Safety

NCT03080168 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 220

Last updated 2021-04-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This is a research project looking at whether measuring movements or responses to certain questions can help predict suicidal thoughts or actions.

This project has two parts: The first part will occur while the participant is receiving hospitalized at the Bedford VA Hospital. It involves wearing a watch-like device on his/her wrist and answering questions or doing tasks to measure mood and other mental health symptoms, and suicidal thoughts.

In the second phase, the investigators will call the participant around 12 months after s/he has left the hospital. The investigators will discuss how s/he is doing and if s/he has had suicidal thoughts or made suicidal acts.

Conditions

  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Suicidal Behavior
  • Mental Health Symptoms
  • Mental Health Hospitalizations

Interventions

DEVICE

Actigraph

This is NOT an intervention but a monitoring device. All participants will wear an Actigraph for the duration of their inpatient stay, as well as complete paper and computer assessments.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Eric G. Smith, MD PhD MPH · Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-02-21
Primary Completion
2021-04-01
Completion
2021-04-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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