Mobile App Supplement for Brief Psychotherapy in Suicidal Thoughts
This study is testing if adding a mobile app to brief therapy can help reduce strong emotions and suicidal thoughts. It involves 50 adults who have recently had suicidal thoughts or attempts. You would either receive your usual care plus daily smartphone surveys about your emotions, or usual care plus the surveys, three short therapy sessions, and app prompts to practice skills. The study aims to see if the group receiving the app and skills training has less intense suicidal urges. To join, you need to be an adult (18+), speak English, and own a smartphone. The current recruitment status is unclear.
- Study design
- This is a randomized study with 50 participants. Participants will be assigned to one of two groups to compare different approaches.
- What's involved
- You would complete daily smartphone surveys (ecological momentary assessment, EMA) four times a day. One group will also have three brief therapy sessions during hospitalization and a possible booster session.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your suicidal urges will be measured until the end of the study, which is up to 28 days after you leave the hospital.
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Randomized Clinical Trial of Supplementing Brief Psychotherapy With a Mobile App
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- EVAN KLEIMAN, Ph.D. · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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What this trial measures
- Within-person changes in momentary self-reported intensity of suicidal urges (measured on a 11-point rating scale via ecological momentary assessment) from pre- to post-EMIThrough study completion (up to 28 days after inpatient hospital discharge)
Overall changes in momentary self-reported intensity of suicidal urges (measured on a 11-point rating scale up to 4x/day via ecological momentary assessment) from pre- to post-EMI use, among those in the experimental condition only
- Between-condition differences in momentary self-reported intensity of suicidal urges (measured on a 11-point rating scale via ecological momentary assessment)Through study completion (up to 28 days after inpatient hospital discharge)
Means and slopes of momentary self-reported intensity of suicidal urges (measured on a 11-point rating scale up to 4x/day via ecological momentary assessment) will be compared between the experimental and control conditions