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Brief Interventions on Social Media to Reduce Suicide Risk (Intervention 1)

NCT06114875 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 942

Last updated 2025-08-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This clinical trial is part of a series of brief interventions to reduce suicide risk in collaboration with the social media platform RallyPoint, a site specifically designed for U.S. servicemembers and veterans to connect with one another. In this RCT (Intervention 1: Peer Support), the investigators will test a psychoeducational intervention aimed at increasing peer responses to RallyPoint posts that a machine learning risk algorithm developed by the current team has identified for signs of distress (e.g., descriptions of suicidal thoughts and behaviors or other mental health concerns). In this intervention, the investigators will flag these distressed posts and prompt peers to reply to the posts by providing informational blurbs detailing helpful peer responses.

Conditions

  • Distress, Emotional
  • Suicide

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Peer support intervention

Flags will appear beside posts that the risk algorithm has identified as containing descriptions of distress or mental health concerns (these flags will not be visible to the original poster). Next to these flags, users will also see a brief blurb such as: "This person might be going through something difficult. To learn more about what to say to peers who may be experiencing distress, click this banner." RallyPoint users will then have the option of clicking on these flags, where they will be directed to a psychoeducational information page on how to provide support to peers who may be experiencing distress.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Harvard University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-11-20
Primary Completion
2025-03-14
Completion
2025-03-14

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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