Home-Based Mental Health Evaluation (HOME)

University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Suicide and Self-harm

Treatments: Behavioral: HOME

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT03347552

13-2982

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this project is to investigate the effectiveness of the Home-Based Mental Health Evaluation (HOME) program, which is an innovative and culturally-relevant suicide prevention intervention for Veterans aimed at increasing treatment engagement and decreasing suicide risk following psychiatric hospitalization, a period of heightened suicide risk.

Full description

The purpose of this project is to investigate the effectiveness of the Home-Based Mental Health Evaluation (HOME) program, which is an innovative and culturally-relevant suicide prevention intervention for Veterans aimed at increasing treatment engagement and decreasing suicide risk following psychiatric hospitalization, a period of heightened suicide risk. The research project employs a multi-site two-arm interventional trial design to study the effectiveness of the HOME program. Effectiveness of the treatment will be evaluated by comparing Veterans receiving the HOME program at two active treatment sites, Denver and Philadelphia Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs), to with those receiving care at two control sites, Houston and Portland VAMCs. The current protocol describes procedures as they will occur at all sites, including those completed locally at the Denver VAMC, which is the lead site for the study.

Enrollment: 323 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 89 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Age between 18-89
2. Able to provide a phone number and the location of a residence at which they can be reached
3. Planned location of discharge is a safe environment for the HOME provider to visit*
4. Agree to receive the HOME program intervention (active site participants only)
5. Ability to adequately respond to questions regarding the informed consent procedure

Exclusion criteria

1. Receiving services from the Mental Health Intensive Case Management (MHICM) or Domiciliary program or being directly transferred to further inpatient or residential treatment
2. Enrolled in other intervention studies that may affect the outcome of this study, or where this study may affect the outcome of the other study, until the subject has completed their participation in the other study
3. Current involvement in the criminal justice system as a prisoner or ward of the state.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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323 participants in 2 patient groups

Active Treatment

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the active arm will be enrolled in the HOME Program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: HOME

E-CARE

No Intervention group

Description:

Receiving enhanced care as usual. Participants at these sites are described as receiving "enhanced care as usual" or "E-CARE" because they will be recruited, enrolled and complete baseline and follow-up assessments in addition to care as usual.