Clinical Trials Logo

Clinical Trial Summary

Background:

Doctors and nurses who work in non-mental health settings need ways to know when patients are at risk. Researchers created the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) to be used in an emergency department for children. This is a 4-item suicide risk screening tool. We wanted to see if this is also a good tool to use in the outpatient setting. Two studies are being done to test it at hospitals. This study is for researchers to analyze the data from those two studies.

Objectives:

To combine and analyze data from two studies to see how well the ASQ can detect suicide risk in pediatric outpatient clinics.

Eligibility:

No people are enrolled in this study.

Design:

Participants in the two non-NIH studies will give consent for their data to be shared.

The data will be confidential and secure. They will have no personal information attached to them.

Researchers will get the data and analyze them.


Clinical Trial Description

This protocol is designed to combine and analyze data from two separate independent studies conducted at non-NIH sites-Boston Children s Hospital (BCH) and Kansas City Mercy Children s Hospital (KC). Both sites have protocols and consents reviewed by the IRBs at their respective institutions, and data collection is underway; NIMH will coordinate and oversee data analysis from these studies. A protocol to establish NIH s role in the studies and IRB review will enhance the acceptance of the research findings for publication in scientific and medical journals.

Physicians and nurses working in non-mental health settings require tools to guide them in recognizing patients at risk. While screening children and adolescents is emerging as a priority of the Joint Commission, there are currently no suicide screening instruments designed specifically for assessing suicide risk in a pediatric outpatient medical setting. Recently, our study team developed the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ), a 4-item suicide risk screening instrument with excellent sensitivity, specificity, and negative predictive value for use in pediatric emergency departments (Protocol 08-M-N070). However, use of the ASQ in an outpatient medical setting has not been tested. The aim of the studies at BCH and KC is to determine the utility of the ASQ among youth in outpatient primary and specialty care clinics (e.g., endocrine, sports medicine, orthopedic). While most outpatients will not be at imminent risk for suicide, we hypothesize that the ASQ will capture a number of patients who screen positive and are not only at risk for suicidal behavior in the future, but are also experiencing significant emotional distress and therefore warrant further psychiatric evaluation and follow-up treatment. Data from BCH and KC will be analyzed under this protocol from a total sample size of 580. Two measures of suicide risk (the ASQ and the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire) and a depression screen (the Patient Health Questionnaire - Adolescent version), are administered to all eligible patients aged 10-21 years. The ultimate goal is to provide non-mental health clinicians with a brief, accurate assessment tool for detecting risk of suicide in pediatric medical outpatients and in turn, connecting those in need with mental health services. ;


Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


NCT number NCT02830334
Study type Observational
Source National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Contact
Status Terminated
Phase
Start date July 9, 2016
Completion date April 22, 2020

See also
  Status Clinical Trial Phase
Completed NCT03563196 - Diagnosis Of Pulmonary Complications After Cardiac Surgery In Children
Completed NCT02553486 - Internationally Adopted Children Quality of Life N/A
Completed NCT02903134 - Early Risk of Asthma in Children Exposed to In-utero Maternal Obesity
Completed NCT02918890 - Intensive Unimanual (CIMT) and Bimanual Training (HABIT) in Children With Hemiplegia N/A
Active, not recruiting NCT01874847 - PLAY GAME: Post-concussion Syndrome in Youth - Assessing the GABAergic Effects of Melatonin Phase 2/Phase 3
Enrolling by invitation NCT01971840 - Effectiveness of a Physical Activity Intervention on Preventing Obesity During the Adiposity Rebound Period. N/A
Enrolling by invitation NCT01971827 - Effectiveness of a Physical Activity Intervention to Prevent Obesity and Improve Academic Performance N/A
Completed NCT01738308 - The Effects of Healing Touch on Post Operative Pediatric Patients N/A
Completed NCT01693926 - Effect of Physical Activity an Stress in Children N/A
Completed NCT01943760 - Tamadol Wound Infiltration in Children Under Inguinal Hernioplasty Phase 4
Completed NCT01864811 - Effect of Baby-CIMT in Infants Younger Than 12 Months N/A
Completed NCT01323010 - Efficacy and Safety of Increasing Doses of Inhaled Albuterol in Children With Acute Wheezing Episodes N/A
Completed NCT01277224 - Effectiveness of a Physical Activity Intervention on the Obesity of Schoolchildren N/A
Active, not recruiting NCT00989547 - Cord Blood Infusion for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) Phase 1
Completed NCT04051723 - Pre-emptive Scalp Infiltration With Dexamethasone Plus Ropivacaine for Post-Craniotomy Pain in Children Phase 4
Completed NCT03236337 - Effectiveness of MOVI Interventions on Adiposity, Cognition and Subclinical Atherosclerosis: MOVI-daFit! N/A
Completed NCT03236363 - Effectiveness of MOVI Interventions on Adiposity, Cognition and Motor Competence: MOVI-da10! N/A
Not yet recruiting NCT03427697 - Effect of VR and Accommdation Relax on Controlling Myopia in Children N/A
Completed NCT05603507 - Inspiratory Muscle Training in Children With Chest Burn N/A
Not yet recruiting NCT06267339 - Effects of Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation on Motor Learning in Typically Developing Adolescents Early Phase 1