Short Message System (SMS) Monitoring Intended for the Suicidal Patients

Regional University Hospital Center (CHRU)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Patients Having Realized a Suicide Attempt

Treatments: Device: SMS contact with patient after discharge in intervention group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02106949

SIAM

RB 13-068 [CHRU Brest]

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study wants to prove that SMS monitoring reduced the number of suicide attempts in six months according to the beginning of its implementation in the group of the patients benefiting SMS compared with the group of patients benefiting from the usual care.

Enrollment: 530 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Written informed consent
• Surviving a suicide attempt
• Leaving directly the emergency department or hospitalized less than 7 days
• Being able to be joined by telephone mobile

Exclusion criteria

• under guardianship
• Patient who are not able to provide a consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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530 participants in 2 patient groups

SMS

Experimental group

Description:

The patients of the test group receive a first SMS 48 hours after their discharge from the hospital then a total of 10 messages distributed over six months: 48 hours, S1, S2, M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6 and M13.

Treatment:

Device: SMS contact with patient after discharge in intervention group

Without SMS

No Intervention group

Description:

The patients of the group benefit from the usual care.