WellPATH-PREVENT: A Mobile Intervention for Middle-Aged and Older Adults Hospitalized for Suicidal Ideation or Attempt

NCT05183230 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 115

Last updated 2025-10-29

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Summary

The goal of this project is to test whether WellPATH-PREVENT (a novel, mobile psychosocial intervention) improves a specific aspect of emotion regulation, i.e., cognitive reappraisal ability, and reduces suicide risk in middle-aged and older adults (50-90 years old) who have been discharged after a suicide-related hospitalization (i.e. for suicidal ideation or suicide attempt).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

WellPATH-PREVENT

WellPATH-PREVENT is a novel personalized, easy to use, mainly stand-alone mobile intervention which focuses on the exclusive use of the WellPATH tablet app and includes training meetings during hospitalization, and virtual post-discharge coaching meetings. The meetings aim to: a) identify stressors and triggers of negative emotions associated with increased suicidal ideation or with suicidal behavior; b) develop techniques (text or video) to increase cognitive reappraisal ability; c) incorporate the techniques into the WellPATH app and promote the use of WellPATH during stressful incidents, triggers of negative emotions, or scheduled brief training sessions; and d) remotely update the triggers, negative emotions, and techniques in the app.

BEHAVIORAL

Optimized WellPATH-PREVENT

The Optimized WellPATH-PREVENT intervention will be as described above, but based on the results of the Proof-of-Concept (R61) Phase, an expert committee will help select the duration (6 or 12 weeks) that shows greater improvement in cognitive reappraisal.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH
  • Weill Medical College of Cornell University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dimitris Kiosses, PhD · Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-04-22
Primary Completion
2026-09-30
Completion
2026-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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