INternet-based Programmes FOR the Prevention of Suicidal Ideation in MEDical Students (InforMed)

Centre Hospitalier Charles Perrens, Bordeaux

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Suicidal Ideation

Treatments: Other: Videos and/or SMS

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03949556

InforMed

Details and patient eligibility

About

Two programmes have been built to prevent suicidal ideation; one focuses on stress management based on cognitive and behavioural principles and the other on health promotion.

Full description

The main objective will be assessing their respective effectiveness on suicidal ideation (at least one occurrence over a 12-month period after the end of the intervention), through a randomized controlled trial, in medical students and interns.

Enrollment: 2,544 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being registered in the fourth year of medical studies or in the first year of residency (internship), as they appear as two critical periods over medical studies
• Being registered in the i-Share cohort
• 18 year-old and over
• Speaking and reading French
• Having given an informed consent
• Ability to understand the type, the aims and the methodology of the study
• Agreement for online clinical assessment
• Having a mobile phone number and an e-mail address
• To be beneficiary of a health insurance programme

Exclusion criteria

• Refusing to participate
• Protective supervision: curatorship, guardianship

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2,544 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Intervention program - stress management program

Experimental group

Description:

This intervention program on stress management is developed to prevent suicidal ideation in medical students and residents.

Treatment:

Other: Videos and/or SMS

Intervention program - health promotion program

Active Comparator group

Description:

This intervention program on health promotion is developed to prevent suicidal ideation in medical students and residents.

Treatment:

Other: Videos and/or SMS

Control condition - general information

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Participants will receive weekly emails and SMSs, over the same periods of time, with general information about health except mental health, e.g. prevention of melanoma, dental care....

Treatment:

Other: Videos and/or SMS