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Optimizing a Just-in-time Adaptive Intervention for Suicide Safety Planning in Adolescents

NCT06665620 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2026-01-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Despite efforts to prevent suicide, US rates are climbing, and suicide is the second leading cause of death amongst youth. Digital tools, especially personal smartphones, are promising avenues to address these issues and can be used to increase engagement with effective interventions such as suicide safety planning. The BRITE suicide safety planning app was developed on evidence-based principles and has undergone rigorous formative development and effectiveness evaluations. However, to optimize its functionality, commercial viability, and scale its implementation, issues related to user engagement need to be addressed. This 4-week Micro-Randomized Trial (MRT) will optimize specific components of ViraBrite, an augmented version of the BRITE suicide safety planning app that integrates automated algorithms (i.e., just in time adaptive intervention features) to facilitate increased engagement with coping skills and pushes safety planning materials to users at periods of high risk (i.e., increases in emotional distress).

Conditions

  • Suicide
  • Mental Health Disorder
  • Anhedonia

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

ViraBrite nudges

Each day, participants will receive prompts via smartphone notifications that encourage them to access the ViraBrite app and utilize suicide safety planning skills.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Ksana Health

    lead INDUSTRY

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
13 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-07-16
Primary Completion
2026-02-01
Completion
2026-02-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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