An Online Intervention to Reduce Self-Harm Among Persons With High Emotion-Related Impulsivity

University of California (UC), Berkeley

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Suicidal Ideation; Deliberate Self-harm; Impulsivity

Treatments: Behavioral: Calm program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04781166

UC CPHS 2016-01-8287

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this program is to test a brief, online, cognitive behavioral intervention for people who struggle with self-harm or suicidal urges or behavior in the context of emotion-related impulsivity.

Full description

Participants will be asked to complete 7 brief online modules to cover how to understand emotion-triggered impulsivity, to better detect states of high emotion and arousal, to learn new strategies for self-calming high arousal, and to pre-plan how to cope with high arousal states. As part of the program, participants receive daily texts and prompts to remind them of the intervention content and skills. At baseline and follow-up, participants will complete measures of emotion-related impulsivity, self-harm, and suicidality.

Enrollment: 2 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• at least 13 years of age
• engaged in mental health care
• evidence of either self-harm or suicidal urges or behavior in the past 3 months
• high levels of emotion-related impulsivity.

Exclusion criteria

• inability to adequately take part in the online measures due to problems with intellectual function, language, or other conditions,
• psychosis,
• not currently living in California,
• lack of access to a device to privately complete online modules.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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2 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be immediately assigned to the intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Calm program

Waitlist control

Other group

Description:

Participants will complete measures before and after a waitlist equivalent to the duration of the intervention, to assess whether change is observed with time and repeated assessment. After the waitlist control, participants will be provided the opportunity to take part in the intervention. In this RDICT design, the pre- post- treatment data will be included in analyses.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Calm program