Parent Intervention for Psychiatrically-Hospitalized Youth

Conditions

• Adolescent - Emotional Problem
• Parenting
• Suicide and Self-harm

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

12 Years - 85 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• DBT-Based Parenting Intervention — BEHAVIORAL
  The intervention will consist of 4 individual telehealth parent sessions, to be completed within one month after the teen discharges from the inpatient hospital or within one month of linkage to care whatever comes first . Sessions will be 60-90 minute in length and will be offered weekly. Therapists may see parents more than once a week if needed, as long as the total number of sessions does not exceed 4.
• Treatment as usual — BEHAVIORAL
  No parenting intervention provided beyond standard practices on the adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit.

Study Details

The purpose of the present study is to conduct a pilot randomized clinical trial (RCT) of a parent coaching intervention for parents of youth hospitalized for suicidal ideation, suicide attempt(s), or non-suicidal self-injury. Parents will receive either the parent coaching intervention (which includes safety planning and behavioral parenting skills training with a clinician and assistance with linkage to follow-up care by a case manager) or treatment as usual (TAU) for the inpatient unit. The long-term goal of the research is to determine if augmenting standard inpatient treatment with additional parenting intervention improves youth treatment response on suicide-related outcomes (i.e., suicidal ideation, non-suicidal self-injury, and suicide attempts). The goal of this pilot RCT is to collect preliminary data needed for a larger RCT, including feasibility, acceptability, safety, tolerability, engagement of the presumed mechanism of change (changes in parent emotions and behaviors), and signal detection of any changes in youth suicide-related outcomes.

Key Dates

Start date

May 1, 2023

Status verified

Apr 2026

Primary completion

Jun 1, 2026

Completion

Jun 1, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment

40 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Arms

• Experimental: PI+ Inpatient Treatment as Usual
  Standard inpatient treatment delivered in the context of an adolescent psychaitric inpatient unit plus an 4 session DBT-based parenting intervention PI) Intervention: Behavioral: DBT-Based Parenting Intervention
• Active Comparator: Inpatient Treatment alone
  No parenting intervention provided beyond what is part of the inpatient treatment as usual. Intervention: Behavioral: Treatment as Usual

Primary Outcome Measure

Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (Posner et al., 2011) and the Suicide Attempt Self-Injury Interview (SASII; Linehan et al., 2006), Face Sheets [ Time Frame: 3, 6, 12 months from baseline ]

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