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Developing and Feasibility Testing of a Brief Contact Intervention to Reduce Self-harm Repetition Through Co-design.

NCT05530018 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2025-08-14

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Summary

Suicide is a major public health issue. Repeated self-harm may lead to potential future suicide deaths. In addition, it may lead to substantial loss in medical costs. Recently, smartphones have been widely used. Researchers started to apply mobile health to support individuals with self-harm experiences and to combine brief contact interventions which require lower cost to reduce repeated self-harm. However, the research evidence remains sparse. Furthermore, self-harm behaviors might be influenced by different cultural contexts. There is a need to conduct local studies in Taiwan. The aim of this study is to establish a co-design team which includes service users and service providers, to collaboratively develop a text- and web-based brief contact intervention (BCI) to reduce repeated self-harm, and to evaluate the feasibility of the intervention.

Conditions

  • Suicide and Self-harm

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Brief contact intervention

The brief contact intervention (BCI) will send out text messages to the participants. The text messages will include caring messages, reminders of appointments, and a link to a web page. The web page is anticipated to include safety planning, volitional helpsheet, and resources information. The text messages are anticipated to send out to the participants on a weekly base for 6 weeks in a row, and then change to monthly reminders. The monthly reminders are anticipated to include caring messages, reminders of appointments, and invitations to encourage the participants to click the previous web links again. The monthly reminders are anticipated to send out to the participants three times in a row. In the final reminder, the participants will be told that this intervention is going to end. In total, the participants will receive 9 texts within 5 months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taiwan University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Shu-Sen Chang, MD, MSc, PhD · National Taiwan University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-09-19
Primary Completion
2025-01-15
Completion
2025-01-15

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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