Smartphone App Enhanced Facilitation Among Veterans in a Mental Health Inpatient Setting (Project HOPE)
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorVA Office of Research and Development
About this trial
This study will test whether a novel intervention, Virtual Hope Box Enhanced Facilitation (VHB-EF), reduces suicide risk in Veterans after discharge from inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. Additionally, this study will also conduct interviews with Veterans and healthcare providers to explore barriers and facilitators to future adoption of the VHB-EF intervention in healthcare settings.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
1) Veterans aged 18 or older
2) admitted to the inpatient psychiatric unit for a recent suicidal crisis
3) medically stable (the patient's medical and psychological fitness [including aggression] to provide informed consent will be determined by a member of the patient's treatment team)
4) A score of 3 or greater on the Callahan 6-item cognitive screening.
Disqualifiers
1) do not understand English
2) are prisoners
3) are unable to provide informed consent
4) have profound psychotic symptoms and/or cognitive deficits that would prevent patients from understanding the content of the intervention and/or assessments
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Virtual Hope Box Enhanced Facilitation
- Enhanced Usual Care
Treatment groups
928 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov