Family Navigator Intervention

Lifespan

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Family Navigator; Treatment as Usual

Treatments: Behavioral: Family Navigator; Behavioral: Treatment as usual

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05954585

RIH.100

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will develop and examine the feasibility and acceptability of a family navigator protocol while leveraging digital health communication. It will employ an ecological model within a socio-cultural theoretic framework of mental health service disparities and barriers to treatment.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to develop and pilot a Family Navigator intervention with technology-enhanced information sharing for families with youth (80 youth-caregiver dyads) who were discharged from the emergency after an admission for SSIB. This novel intervention aims to reduce suicidal and non-suicidal self-injurious behavior risk and prevalence rates by way of increasing attendance to community-based mental health services for youth aged 10 to 14.

Enrollment: 54 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• youth 10 to 14 years old living at home with legal guardian/caregiver

Exclusion criteria

• presentation including psychosis, sexual assault, or child abuse,
• are in police or child protective services' custody,
• are unable to assent due to severity of illness or developmental disabilities, >cannot communicate in English or Spanish, or
• if no caregiver or legal guardian is able to provide consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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54 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment as usual

Active Comparator group

Description:

Emergency department treatment as usual

Treatment:

Behavioral: Treatment as usual

Family Navigator

Experimental group

Description:

Follow provision provided by a Family Navigator for the length of the treatment or until youth attends community-based mental health care

Treatment:

Behavioral: Family Navigator