Qualitative Assessment of the Brief Contact Intervention "Stay in Contact" in Suicide Prevention

NCT ID: NCT03325478

Last Updated: 2017-10-30

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-05-18

Study Completion Date

2017-08-31

Brief Summary

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Background: For 40 years, brief contact interventions (BCIs) have been presented as promising approaches in suicide prevention but patient's experiences of BCIs are less investigated.

Aim: Understand mechanisms of BCIs after suicide attempt, through patient's experience of a French BCI "Stay in contact" and assess its impact on seeking care during suicidal crisis.

Method:This is a single-center, non-interventional, prospective qualitative study using phone call interview on a BCI, 6 months after suicide attempt behavior.

Statistical analysis

Data were analyzed using statistical software (Version 9.4, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, North Carolina, USA). Chi-squared test was used to assess qualitative variables and t-test to evaluate quantitative variables, with p\<.05 considered significant.

Detailed Description

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The baseline interviews were conducted on the phone, on weekdays, during a mean time of 10 to 15minutes by a trained resident in psychiatry as the only interviewer. The interviewer didn't participate in patient's medical care nor in the follow-up interventions. The interviewer didn't look in patients file before conducted over the phone interviews and had only administrative information on the study subjects: first and last name, age, sex, phone number. The phone call interview wasn't considered as an intervention. Whenever the interviewer judged necessary that a patient needed more intensive treatment, the relevant referral to help was done.

Conditions

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Suicide and Self-harm

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

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Over the phone interviews on the BCI "Stay in Contact"

This study used phone call interviews on a BCI "Stay in Contact", 6 months after suicide attempt behavior.The questionnaire used for the interview of included suicide attempters was pilot tested to assess acceptability and feasibility of the study. It included 24 questions, which were based on literature's data.They covered seeking care and help items and assess the subjective quality appreciation of medical care in the PED and on the BCI.Closed-ended and multiple-choice questions were mixed. Included patients were informed that the questionnaire was anonymous and that seeking their views and feedbacks would help adjusting the implementation of follow-up interventions closer to their needs.The baseline interviews were conducted on the phone, on weekdays, during a mean time of 10 to 15minutes by a trained resident in psychiatry as the only interviewer.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* be male or female, be aged 18 or older, have a situation permitting follow-up contacts by phone.

Exclusion Criteria

* be placed under supervision by the law such as guardianship and curatorship, be incarcerated and refusing to participate to the BCI
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Central Hospital, Nancy, France

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Catherine Pichene

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Psychiatric Emergency Departement, Central Hospital, Nancy, France

Fabienne Ligier

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Psychiatric Emergency Departement, Central Hospital, Nancy, France

Sondos Abdalla

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Psychiatric Emergency Departement, Central Hospital, Nancy, France

Locations

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Central Hospital

Nancy, Lorraine, France

Site Status

Countries

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France

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Other Identifiers

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2017-A01023-50

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id