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Filter by:Suicide is a major public health problem. About 9,000 suicides per year are retrieved by year in France. Between 15,000 and 20,0000 suicide attempts give rise to contact with the healthcare system. Among young people aged 15 to 24 years old, suicide is the second main cause of death. In this way, suicide among adolescents is a major public health priority, due to its seriousness, its frequency, and its potentially preventable nature. The severity of suicide risk can be assessed by different scales, and the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) is the most widely used in the international literature for adolescents, assessing four dimensions: suicidal ideation, severity of ideation, suicidal behavior and lethality. The measurement of the seriousness of the suicide risk is therefore defined as the measurement of the importance of the direct and indirect negative consequences associated with this risk. It can be catch up in the four factors mentioned above. Anxiety is one of the central pillars influencing the suicidal risk of adolescents. Very few studies have identified operationalizable and generalizable risk factors for anxiety. However, in adolescents, one of the risk factors for anxiety seems particularly important, because it is a factor that is both generic (i.e., it can be found in different profiles of adolescents), related to the projection in the future (which characterizes this population), and relatively specific to this age group, while being operational through validated questionnaires. This important risk factor is the eco-anxiety, which corresponds to anxiety related to climate change. The theme of climate change is certainly a central social issue, but also an important public health issue. First, climate change raises direct risks to human health, and indirectly some risks for mental health. For instance, the direct consequences of a drought or natural disaster can cause material hardship that impacts indirectly mental health (Thoma et al., 2021). Secondly, climate change can also raise direct risk for mental health, and especially the eco-anxiety which is not the consequence of a direct risk from the environment on an individual, but rather constitutes mental distress related to the fear of such changes. Eco-anxiety can be identified and measured in a valid and reliable way thanks to a scale used in the international literature, the "Climate Anxiety Scale" (CAS), which was validated in 2020 with 22 items with 4 factors by Clayton and Karazsia (Clayton and Karazsia, 2020), and translated and validated in French in 2022 by Mouguiama-Daouda (Mouguiama-Daouda et al., 2022), retaining as the most appropriate model the version with the first 13 items. This scale is suitable for adolescents from the age of 12 years old. This 13-item scale is composed of two subscales that assess cognitive and emotional difficulties in response to climate change and functional impairment. Two subscales are added to this 13-item scale (and thus are part of the 22-item CAS also validated), which assess 1) direct or indirect personal experience of climate change, and 2) behavioral commitment and the tendency to deploy adaptive behavioral responses to climate change. The literature reports a correlation between eco-anxiety and depression (Mouguiama-Daouda et al., 2022). Indeed, depressive symptoms can influence how people worry about climate change. The correlation between eco-anxiety and anxiety is variable in the literature and has been studied using questionnaires focusing on generalized anxiety (Mouguiama-Daouda et al., 2022). Higher suicide rates have certainly been shown in populations affected by climate change (Dumont et al., 2020), related to the direct consequences of climate change, e.g., due to pollution, increased temperature or drought. However, to the knowledge of the investigators and despite the major public health impact in adolescents, no study has investigated the relationships between eco-anxiety and the severity of suicide risk. This study therefore seeks to examine the association between eco-anxiety in adolescents, assessed using the French version of the CAS, and the severity of suicide risk, assessed using the French version of the C-SSRS. We hypothesize that there would be a relationship between eco-anxiety and the severity of suicide risk in adolescents. Such results would allow both to refine the understanding of the risk of suicide, in its relationship with a central theme of society and public health, and to better identify and prevent behaviors at risk of suicide among adolescents.
The goal of this randomized pilot trial is to assess the feasibility of administering a combination of 100mg intramuscular (IM) ketamine and Crisis Response Plan (a short psychosocial intervention) for patients with acute suicidality in the context of the Emergency Department setting. This study will assess a combination of a pharmacologic intervention and a psychosocial one. The pharmacologic intervention is a one-time dose of 100mg ketamine delivered intramuscularly (IM) while the patient is in the ED. The psychosocial intervention under study is a brief, patient-centered therapy which takes, on average, 30 minutes to administer. Both interventions will be administered only once. The main questions this study aims to answer are: - Determine if 100mg of IM ketamine and Crisis Response Plan in combination results in greater short-term reductions in suicidal ideation in adult patients who report acutely elevated suicide risk during an ED visit. - Examine potential weight-based dose response differences in the reductions in suicidal ideation to determine if future treatment protocols with IM ketamine may benefit from weight-based dosing.
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of a psychotherapy (non-medication) treatment, Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention, in reducing suicide ideation and attempts for people with physical disabilities.
The investigators have developed music-based cognitive training sessions derived from Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) techniques. The music-based cognitive training sessions will address areas of attention and executive function, which appear to progress over time and worsen as an individual experiences more episodes of depression. The aim of this pilot is to test 8-weeks of music-based cognitive training to improve cognitive function among adults with major depressive disorder.
The primary goal of this Phase I study is to determine the maximum tolerated dose of oncolytic adenovirus mediated double suicide-gene therapy in combination with fractionated stereotactic radiosurgery in patients with recurrent high-grade astrocytoma undergoing resection.
The overarching goal of this study is to evaluate a newly-developed suicide prevention program for sexual and gender minority youth and emerging adults. After development of the intervention program, a randomized controlled trial will be conducted to test its preliminary efficacy in lowering the risk for suicide attempts.
The goal of this 2-arm cluster randomized clinical trial is to test whether an evidence-based staff training and coaching model specifically designed as a response to legal system-involved youths' and frontline staff's mental health needs can improve the safety and suicide outcomes, mental health challenges, and wellness and facility climate for youth and staff in facilities assigned to the intervention condition. Staff in facilities assigned to the intervention are eligible to receive evidence-based programming in suicide detection and prevention (Shield of Care; SOC) and wellness skill-building (Skills for Life) through training and personalized coaching. Multiple training sessions will be offered to small groups of staff in-person in residential facilities and paired with personalized in-person and virtual coaching. Staff and youth in all facilities will be asked to complete periodic surveys assessing experiences in the facility, suicide and safety knowledge and risk, and their mental health and wellness. Researchers will compare outcomes of staff in youth in facilities assigned to the intervention compared to facilities in the training-as-usual condition.
The main objective of this project is to be able to offer a new, specific evidence-based short-term treatment method, the Suicidal Crisis Intervention (SCI), to reduce suicidality. In addition, this study aims to investigate the influence of SCI on other important aspects of suicidality (secondary goal) such as hopelessness, defeat, entrapment, and interpersonal needs.
Crisis stabilization centers (CSCs) provide a less costly and more comfortable alternative to Emergency Department care for individuals with suicidal crises. With demand for crisis alternatives growing, effective interventions that fit the unique workflows and workforce of CSCs are needed to realize their life-saving potential. To address this need, the investigators will adapt, and pilot test the effectiveness of an interpersonally enhanced recovery and follow-up intervention delivered during and after admissions acute suicidal crises.
Each year, suicide is the cause of 8,580 deaths in France, it is the second leading cause of death among 15-24 year olds. People who have made a first suicide attempt are identified as being at greater risk of repeating a suicidal gesture, particularly in the first month following the gesture . At the same time, Brief Intervention Contact (BIC) is recognized as effective in reducing suicide deaths. A new brief intervention to prevent suicidal attempts has been developed in the United States by Santley & Brown (2012) the results of its effectiveness are very encouraging. Investigators hypothesise that the implementation of a safety plan by the emergency department for suicidal patients included in the Vigilans system leads to a greater reduction in the reiteration of suicidality at 6 months compared to the usual management. Our main objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of the implementation of a safety plan by the emergency department nurse before discharge from the emergency department in reducing suicidal reiteration at six months after the suicide attempt, for suicidal patients included in the Vigilans programe, compared with the Vigilans programe alone. Our secondary objectives are - Reduce the reiteration of the suicidal act at 1 month - Encourage engagement in care at 1 month and 6 months - Reduce the use of emergency departments at 1 month and 6 months due to a suicidal crisis - Decrease suicide mortality at 6 months To study the implementation of the intervention: - To measure the quality of completion, and the duration of completion of the safety plan at 1 month, and 6 months. - Assess the acceptability of the safety plan by emergency department nurses, and then by the vigilantes. - Assess the acceptability of the safety plan by patient