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Developing an Intervention to Promote Lethal Means Safety in Suicidal Adolescents

NCT05423483 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 61

Last updated 2025-03-03

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Summary

Study Objective: to develop a phone-based intervention to aid parents of suicidal adolescents to adhere to lethal means safety.

Lethal means counseling is the practice of educating patients and their families about limiting access to items that can be used to attempt suicide. Though lethal means counseling is standard practice in treating suicidal patients, there is little experimental literature related to its utilization across different providers and its efficacy. Further, there is a significant gap in the literature on lethal means counseling as it relates to adolescents. The proposed project will investigate a novel text message-based intervention aimed to promote lethal means safety.

Conditions

  • Suicide

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Safe Home Text Message Reminders

Text messages sent 2x a week with reminders to keep lethal means restricted and surveys of lethal means practices that serve as a prompt to adhere to suggested restriction measures.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
100 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-09-08
Primary Completion
2024-01-16
Completion
2024-07-19

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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