Supporting Caregivers Following Mental Health Emergency Department Visits
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age10-17
SponsorAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
About this trial
The investigators plan to conduct a pilot hybrid effectiveness-implementation type 1 randomized controlled trial comparing 3 arms of varying follow-up intervention. Caregivers of youth ages 10-17 who present to the Lurie Children's Hospital ED with suicidal thoughts or behaviors (STBs) and are discharged with a safety plan will be included in the current study. Families will be randomized to receive either 1) treatment as usual, 2) follow-up phone calls, or 3) automatic electronic medical record (EMR) MyChart messages
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Participants are eligible for participation in the current study if they are parent/guardians of youth ages 10-17 who received a psychiatric evaluation in the ED for suicidal thoughts or behaviors and are being discharged with a safety plan
Disqualifiers
Parents/guardians will be excluded from recruitment if the youth is in state custody, if they are not proficient in English or Spanish, if the patient is being admitted or transferred for medical or psychiatric hospital admission, or they are not willing to enroll in MyChart through the EMR. The investigators are also only enrolling one caregiver per patient. In other words, if a patient returns to the ED with a different caregiver, the investigators will not enroll the other caregiver.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Telephone Calls
- Automatic MyChart Messages
Treatment groups
75 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Lead sponsor
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov