SAFETY-Parent: Online Learning Module to Support Parents of Suicidal Youth

Part of paid clinical trials in Columbus, Ohio.

Sponsor
Jennifer Hughes
Study ID
NCT06460220
Status
Enrolling By Invitation

Conditions

  • Suicide
  • Suicide Threat
  • Suicide and Self-harm
  • Suicide, Attempted

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
10 Years - 18 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • Safe Alternatives for Teens and Youth - Parent (SAFETY-P) — BEHAVIORAL
    The parent component of SAFETY focuses on enhancing parents' skills in supporting youth safety and managing parental distress during a suicidal crisis, ideal content to adapt for web-based delivery for parents. Specifically, parent information includes psychoeducation about suicide risk and protective factors, lethal means restriction, development of a parent distress tolerance plan (i.e., Parent Safety Plan), parent self-care and sources of support, strengthening the youth/parent relationship, and focus on care linkage for the youth. The SAFETY-P asynchronous parent intervention module will include text, interactive handouts, vignettes, and short video examples. The SAFETY-P module will allow for parents to access information and skills training on their own time, with the opportunity and encouragement to ask informed questions of their child's clinician; this will provide clinicians the opportunity to utilize their check-ins with parents more effectively to address youth safety.
  • Treatment As Usual (TAU) — BEHAVIORAL
    TAU will consist of treatment and case management as usual in the NCH Critical Assessment and Treatment (CATC) program. This may include individual and group therapy sessions for the youth, family therapy, medication management, and case management/discharge planning. Frequency of these services varies by availability and care linkage to ongoing outpatient care. We will track the number, type and length of all treatment and case management services provided as part of TAU in CATC to control for time spent in by parents and youth in TAU across study conditions. Additionally, the Child and Adolescent Services Assessment (CASA), a services use measure, will be utilized to capture any additional treatments and parents' involvement in those treatments.

Study Details

This project aims to adapt the parent component of Safe Alternatives for Teens and Youth (SAFETY) outpatient intervention to SAFETY-Parent (SAFETY-P), a self-paced interactive learning module for parents, to be implemented as an augmentation for youth being seen for suicidal ideation, suicidal behavior, or recent suicide attempts across multiple settings at Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH, Columbus, Ohio).

Key Dates

Start date
Jun 10, 2024
Status verified
Mar 2026
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2026
Completion
Dec 31, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment
65 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT

Arms

  • Experimental: Safe Alternatives for Teens and Youth - Parent (SAFETY-P) + Treatment as Usual (TAU)
    Phase 2 will include pilot testing of the SAFETY-P asynchronous parent intervention module with a nonrandomized case series of 10 families receiving services in CATC. Participants will be provided with the SAFETY-P modules and complete follow-up measures after one month. Phase 3 will include an RCT with N = 30 youth and parents, with half randomized to SAFETY-P + treatment as usual (TAU). Participants will complete measures at baseline, 1 month, and 3 months.
  • Other: Treatment As Usual (TAU)
    Phase 3 will include an RCT with N = 30 youth and parents, with half randomized treatment as usual (TAU). Participants will complete measures at baseline, 1 month, and 3 months.

Primary Outcome Measure

Satisfaction with intervention on the Peabody Treatment Progress Battery (PTPB) - Service Satisfaction Scale (SSS) [ Time Frame: 1 month, 3 months ]

Locations (2)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Nationwide Children's HospitalColumbusOhio43205-
Nationwide Children's HospitalColumbusOhio43215-

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