Text-messaging Intervention to Support Parents After Their Child's Psychiatric Emergency
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorVanderbilt University Medical Center
About this trial
This grant aims to develop and test a text-messaging intervention for parents of children and teens evaluated in the emergency department for a psychiatric emergency and discharged home with outpatient referrals. The intervention for parents will teach parents skills to navigate the mental health services system and build their self-efficacy in managing their child's mental health. This research has the potential to improve services for families seeking emergency psychiatric support, with the goal of facilitating treatment engagement and reducing emergency services utilization using scalable, cost-effective, accessible tools.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Parents or legal guardians of a child ages 11-17;
Parents or legal guardians must live with their child ≥50% of the time;
Child must be admitted to the pediatric emergency department for a mental health crisis;
Child must be discharged home from the emergency department with referrals to outpatient care.
Disqualifiers
Do not have daily access to a mobile phone that can receive SMS text messages;
Do not speak and read fluently in English.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- iPEACE: Intervention for Parent Education about Care after the ED
- Text Messaging Reminders Only
Treatment groups
90 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Lead sponsor
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov