This study will develop and examine the feasibility and acceptability of a family navigator protocol while leveraging digital health communication. It will employ an ecological model within a socio-cultural theoretic framework of mental health service disparities and barriers to treatment.
The purpose of this study is to develop and pilot a Family Navigator intervention with technology-enhanced information sharing for families with youth (80 youth-caregiver dyads) who were discharged from the emergency after an admission for SSIB. This novel intervention aims to reduce suicidal and non-suicidal self-injurious behavior risk and prevalence rates by way of increasing attendance to community-based mental health services for youth aged 10 to 14.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
54
Emergency department treatment as usual
Family Navigator will speak with families about individual and systemic issues for linkage to mental health care biweekly for 3 months or until the youth's first mental health appt has been attended, whichever comes first.
Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Mental Health Services
adapted CASA
Time frame: 6 months
Suicidal ideation
Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire
Time frame: 6 months
Suicidal behavior
Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire
Time frame: 6 months
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