Socio-Educational Intervention for Rural Suicide Attempters

Beijing HuiLongGuan Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Suicide, Attempted

Treatments: Other: socio-educational intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00808873

2008-7

Details and patient eligibility

About

Compared to a treatment-as-usual group, providing brief mental health education to suicide attempters from rural parts of China at the time of their treatment in the emergency departments of general hospitals or local clinics and 6 home-visits (FOR those subjects WITH PHONES refuse home visits, THE INTERVIEWS WILL BE CONDUCTED OVER THE PHONE) over the twelve months after the attempt demonstrate continuing concern about the attempters ('befriending'), strengthen their social support networks and improve their problem-solving skills will significantly reduce their hopelessness, the severity of depressive symptoms, and level of suicidal ideation.

Enrollment: 450 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• suicide attempters
• must be 18 years or older
• no-zero intent to die

Exclusion criteria

• with communication difficulties
• living outside of the research sites

Trial design

450 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

brief education and 6 follow-up visits

Treatment:

Other: socio-educational intervention

2

No Intervention group

Description:

treatment-as-usual