Program to Promote Engagement in Care for the Prevention of Recidivism (PEPS)

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Status: Unknown

Conditions: Health Care Seeking Behavior; Case Management; Suicide

Treatments: Other: suicide attempt patient using PEPS Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04366466

10477M-PEPS

Details and patient eligibility

About

In France, the number of emergency visits for suicide attempts is estimated at 220,000 per year. Suicide management aims to reduce suicide risk factors in order to improve the mental health of patients and prevent recurrences.

To day, no study has compared the approaches to health surveillance and case management in a clinical trial, nor established the benefit of each on commitment to care and beyond the prevention of suicidal recurrence.

Enrollment: 138 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥18.
• Male and female.
• Admission to CH St Denis for a suicide attempt.
• Referral for outpatient follow-up.
• Patient with no psychiatric follow-up or who has been out of follow-up for at least three months.
• Patient having given their written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients not affiliated with social security or state medical aid.
• Patients who do not have the required faculties to be evaluated (cognitive and delusional disorders).
• Patients treated for more than 72 hours after their procedure (maximum length of stay in the UAS and/or in medical intensive care.
• Patient currently under psychiatric care.
• Patients who cannot be called back by telephone (no telephone, homeless, incarceration).
• Patients who do not master the French language.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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138 participants in 2 patient groups

suicide attempt patient who will receive sanitory supervision

Other group

Description:

The control group will establish the health monitoring

Treatment:

Other: suicide attempt patient using PEPS Program

Suicide attempt patient who will participate to PEPS Program

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group will test the program of Promotion of Commitment to Care for the Prevention of Suicidal Recidivism.

Treatment:

Other: suicide attempt patient using PEPS Program