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Meaning of Life Questionnaire (MLQ) in Patients Admitted to the Crisis Centre (MSVCAC)

NCT05514587 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 119

Last updated 2023-11-07

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Summary

Suicide is the highest mortality risk in psychiatry and about the only life-threatening risk associated with the evolution of mental illness. Worldwide, more than 800,000 people die by suicide each year. Although the number of deaths by suicide has decreased in France (from 11,000 in the 1990s to 9,000 today), suicide is still a major public health problem (the French rate is one of the highest in Europe).

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a state of emergency and is pushing each country to develop a global multisectoral strategy for effective suicide prevention. To this end, suicide risk assessment tools have been developed for predictive purposes. However, diagnosis remains difficult and the risk of recidivism remains the fear of the psychiatrist. Questioning the subjects about their vision of their existence and the meaning they give to their life would perhaps help to better understand the psychology of the suicidal person. In recent decades, there has been research on meaning and suicide, and more recently a few studies have attempted to quantitatively investigate meaning as a protective factor. More recently, the COVID epidemic has brought the issue of meaning and suicide prevention to the forefront.

Conditions

  • Suicide
  • Mental Suffering
  • Meaning of Life
  • Questionnaire

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Meaning of Life Questionnaire (MLQ)

Completion of questionnaires at crisis centre entry and 3 months later.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Régional Metz-Thionville

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pascal MD LE VAOU · CHR Metz Thionville Hopital de Mercy

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-09-29
Primary Completion
2023-06-15
Completion
2023-09-15

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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