Follow up by General Practitioner After Self-poisoning

University of Oslo (UIO)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Suicidal and Self-injurious Behaviour

Treatments: Behavioral: Follow up

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01342809

S-08708b

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study hypothesis is that follow up from general practitioner after hospitalization for self poisoning will decrease suicidal behaviour.

Full description

Patients hospitalized after an episode of self poisoning will be randomly assigned into intervention an control groups. The intervention is close follow up by general practitioner six months. Both groups will receive treatment as usual.

Enrollment: 202 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Self Poisoning (according to the WHO definition)
• Ability to fill out questionnaire

Exclusion criteria

• Hospitalization into psychiatric ward
• Unknown address or ID
• Not registered with General Practitioner
• If institutionalized or in jail.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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202 participants in 2 patient groups

Follow up

Experimental group

Description:

Close follow up from written guidelines, supervision provided.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Follow up

Usual Treatment

No Intervention group