Public Messaging to Increase Treatment Seeking for Veterans at Risk for Suicide
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Not yet recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- Mental Health
- Suicide
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Crossover AssignmentIntervention Model Description: All participants will complete the consent process and baseline assessment by telephone with an RA and are randomized to receive the intervention at either baseline (T1), 1-month (T2) or 2-month follow up (T3). Exposure to intervention occurs over a 1-month period.Masking: None (Open Label)Primary Purpose: Prevention
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 18 years and 89 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
The main objective of this study is to develop and test the use of public messaging to increase treatment seeking among Veterans at risk for suicide and resistant to seek mental health care following separation from military service. A four-year mixed methods study that uses a sequential embedded de...
The main objective of this study is to develop and test the use of public messaging to increase treatment seeking among Veterans at risk for suicide and resistant to seek mental health care following separation from military service. A four-year mixed methods study that uses a sequential embedded design will be used to collect data from nationwide samples of Veterans at risk for suicide not in mental health treatment who separated from the DoD in the past year. Informed by the Theory of Planned Behavior, individual interviews will first be conducted to guide the design of effective public messages that will be subsequently tested in a two-arm RCT to determine exposure effects among targeted audience vs. control group. Messages will be disseminated to study participants during the trial by a smartphone app. Research staff will collect assessments by telephone at baseline, 1- and 3-months post-randomization. Potential participants (for all study aims) will be identified using data available from the VA/DOD Identity Repository (VADIR) and recruited by invitational mailing and follow-up telephone calls. If the intervention is found effective, the investigators will work with the VA operational partner to include messages in future outreach approaches to prevent Veteran suicide and use findings to improve current communication performance measures.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT04784663
- Collaborators
- Not Provided
- Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Karras Pilato, PhD Canandaigua VA Medical Center, Canandaigua, NY
Get Well Soon