Assessing the Effectiveness of Self- and Clinician-administered Crisis Response Planning for Suicide Risk

The Ohio State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Suicide, Attempted; Suicidal Ideation

Treatments: Behavioral: Crisis Response Planning for Suicide Risk

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04903431

2020B0414-B

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the current project is to compare the use and preliminary effectiveness of a self-administered version of the Crisis Response Plan (CRP) in decreasing suicidal/death ideation and distress and increasing positive affect when compared to a clinician-administered version of the protocol in a sample of 150 military Veterans experiencing current death or suicidal ideation.

Enrollment: 75 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• US military veteran
• death or suicidal ideation/suicide attempt within the past month

Exclusion criteria

• non-Veteran status
• acute intoxication or active psychosis precluding provision of informed consent
• inability to communicate and comprehend English
• residence outside the United States
• lack of past-month death/suicide ideation or attempt
• lack of device connected to webcam or internet

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

75 participants in 2 patient groups

Clinician-administered Crisis Response Plan

Active Comparator group

Description:

Clinicians will administer the Crisis Response Plan to 75 military veterans.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Crisis Response Planning for Suicide Risk

Self-administered Crisis Response Plan

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will complete a self-guided version of the Crisis Response plan online.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Crisis Response Planning for Suicide Risk