Effect of Psychosocial Treatment by the Case Manager in Patients After a Suicide Attempt

Shen-Ing,Liu

Status: Completed

Conditions: Suicide, Attempted

Treatments: Other: proactive psychosocial intervention by care managers; Behavioral: case management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00664872

NSC96-2314-B195-011

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the case manager are effective in the treatment of suicide attempters.

Full description

Compared with usual care, interventional group will (1) improve treatment attendance, (2) have less repeated suicide attempts in adults after a suicide attempts, and (3)have better patients' satisfaction with care.

Enrollment: 147 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Participants recruit adults who:

1. Discharge from an emergency department of a teaching hospital after attempt suicide
2. Aged above 18 years old
3. Agree to provide written inform consent.

Exclusion criteria

1. Patients were too ill to be interviewed
2. Patients have immediate and severe suicide risk.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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147 participants in 1 patient group

case management

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: proactive psychosocial intervention by care managers

Behavioral: case management