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Technology-Assisted Systems Change for Suicide Prevention
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating In-person TASCS, Telehealth TASCS, and 2 other interventions for Suicide and Suicide, Attempted. Completed, enrolled 47 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Effective prevention of suicide among adult emergency department (ED) patients hinges on an indispensable component: the ability to translate evidence-based interventions into routine clinical practice on a broad scale and with fidelity to the intervention components so they can have a maximum public health effect. However, there are critical barriers that prevent such translation, including a lack of trained clinicians, competing priorities in busy EDs, and incompatibility between requirements of evidence-based interventions (such as completing telephone coaching with patients after the ED visit) and the workflow and infrastructure typically present in most EDs. The proposed new intervention will address these barriers by building a suite of technologies that will make it easier to implement the Emergency Department Safety Assessment and Follow-up Evaluation (ED-SAFE), an evidence-based suicide intervention targeting perceived social support, behavioral activation and impulse control, revolutionizing the field's ability to scale and implement this intervention and acting as a model for efforts to implement other existing and emerging suicide interventions.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
In-person clinician delivery of the intervention, including the Safety Planning Intervention, connection to best-match behavioral health resources, and development of an outpatient treatment plan by a research clinician, facilitated by the TASCS Clinician App.
Telehealth clinician delivery of the intervention, including the Safety Planning Intervention, connection to best-match behavioral health resources, and development of an outpatient treatment plan by a research clinician, facilitated by the TASCS Clinician App.
Self-administration of the intervention, including the Safety Planning Intervention, facilitated by the TASCS ED Patient App.
Counseling calls and access to the Post-ED Patient and Family App for three months after the index presentation. These resources allow the patient and family to review their safety plan, life plan, and outpatient care plan