Suicide Prevention for Justice Involved Managed Care Subscribers

Butler Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Suicide and Self-harm

Treatments: Behavioral: Caring Contacts letters

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05579600

1P50MH127512-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

1P50MH127512-01A1 8577

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effects of a suicide prevention intervention for individuals released from jail. The main question it aims to answer is: Does the use of Caring Contacts improve subscriber engagement with healthcare services while reducing suicide-related outcomes? Participants will include subscribers of a managed care organization (MCO). Intervention includes sending subscribers Caring Contacts letters for 6-months following jail release to target healthcare re-engagement and suicide prevention.

Enrollment: 45,155 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18+ years old
• Released from an Ohio jail
• enrolled in Medicaid through CareSource

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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45,155 participants in 2 patient groups

Caring Contact letters

Experimental group

Description:

Caring Contact letters will be mailed to a randomly selected group of managed care subscribers over a 6-month period following jail release.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Caring Contacts letters

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Care as usual