Implementability and Effectiveness of the Safety Planning Intervention for Suicidal Behavior

Suicide Clinical Trial

Official title: Safety-Planning Intervention for Suicidal Behavior in an Emergency Department: an Effectiveness-implementation Hybrid Design

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The Safety Plan Intervention (SPI) has demonstrated to reduce suicide reattempts and to increase the ambulatory follow-up in american war veterans. This study evaluates the implementability and effectiveness in a significantly different population in a real world setting.

Clinical Trial Description

We will perform a Effectiveness-implementation Hybrid Design (Curran et al. 2012) to study firstly the feasibility of implementing the SPI in our clinical setting and secondly its effectiveness. The experimental arm will consist in a group of patients who visit the ED for a suicide-related concern in which the SPI is performed. This will be in the Emergency Department , unless for clinical reasons, the ED psychiatrist decide to postpone it to the first psychiatric appointment (which will be before one week of the ED visit as part of the treatment as usual).

Right after the SPI is performed, both the patient and the clinician will complete questionnaire with satisfaction and acceptability measures. Subjects will be followed for 6 months. At this time medical records will be consulted to obtain suicide reattempts rates and follow-up adherence.

At all times, the anonymity of the participants will be preserved and will require heading of informed consent, as well as other ethical aspects indicated by the Ethics Committee. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Suicidal Ideation
• Suicide
• Suicide, Attempted

• NCT number: NCT04230434
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario La Paz
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 1, 2019
• Completion date: February 1, 2020