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Text-messaging Intervention to Support Parents After Their Child's Psychiatric Emergency

NCT06456762 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2025-11-10

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Summary

This grant aims to develop and test a text-messaging intervention for parents of children and teens evaluated in the emergency department for a psychiatric emergency and discharged home with outpatient referrals. The intervention for parents will teach parents skills to navigate the mental health services system and build their self-efficacy in managing their child's mental health. This research has the potential to improve services for families seeking emergency psychiatric support, with the goal of facilitating treatment engagement and reducing emergency services utilization using scalable, cost-effective, accessible tools.

Conditions

  • Parents
  • Self Efficacy
  • Mental Health Literacy
  • Psychiatric Emergency

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

iPEACE: Intervention for Parent Education about Care after the ED

Automated texting intervention for parents to increase engagement in their child's outpatient mental health treatment over an 8-week period.

BEHAVIORAL

Text Messaging Reminders Only

Weekly automated text reminders to instruct parents to make an appointment with their child's outpatient mental health provider over an 8-week period.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Margaret Benningfield, MD · Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-08-01
Primary Completion
2026-12-31
Completion
2026-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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