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Real-time Examination of Skills and Coping Use in Teen's Everyday Lives

NCT06720753 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2026-01-30

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare two core intervention skills among adolescents with a history of engaging in at least 3 lifetime incidents of self-inflicted injury (SII), at least one of which was a suicide attempt of at least moderate lethality and moderate intent to die. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Whether and when youth use skills in daily life, how quickly skill use declines after teaching, and whether exposure to life stress influences skill learning and retention.

The Investigators also want to know whether brain-related, family-related, and physiology-related factors influence skills practice and any associated changes in self-harm/suicide risk and emotion dysregulation.

Participants will complete surveys 5 times a day on their phones at baseline, and following each skill learning session. All participants will learn and practice the two skills with a parent while discussing topics they often argue about. During these discussions, participants will be hooked up to psychophysiological equipment to measure their cardiovascular functioning and their palm sweat. Participants' discussions will be coded for skill use and also for indices of family functioning. Approximately half of the participants will undergo two sets of fMRI scans to assess potential neural underpinnings of skill use.

Conditions

  • Self Injurious Behavior
  • Suicide

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Opposite to emotion action

Participants will be taught the opposite action skill from Dialectical Behavior Therapy

BEHAVIORAL

GIVE

Participants will be taught the GIVE skill from Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Utah

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Erin Kaufman, Ph.D. · University of Utah

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-07-29
Primary Completion
2029-03-31
Completion
2029-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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