Smartphone App Enhanced Facilitation Among Veterans in a Mental Health Inpatient Setting (Project HOPE)

Description

This study will test whether a novel intervention, Virtual Hope Box Enhanced Facilitation (VHB-EF), reduces suicide risk in Veterans after discharge from inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. Additionally, this study will also conduct interviews with Veterans and healthcare providers to explore barriers and facilitators to future adoption of the VHB-EF intervention in healthcare settings.

Conditions

Suicide Prevention, Suicide Attempt, Suicidal Ideation

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Study overview

This study will test whether a novel intervention, Virtual Hope Box Enhanced Facilitation (VHB-EF), reduces suicide risk in Veterans after discharge from inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. Additionally, this study will also conduct interviews with Veterans and healthcare providers to explore barriers and facilitators to future adoption of the VHB-EF intervention in healthcare settings.

Virtual Hope Box Enhanced Facilitation in High-Risk Suicidal Veterans

Smartphone App Enhanced Facilitation Among Veterans in a Mental Health Inpatient Setting (Project HOPE)

Condition
Suicide Prevention
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Ann Arbor

VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48105-2303

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * 1) Veterans aged 18 or older
  • * 2) admitted to the inpatient psychiatric unit for a self-diagnosed recent suicidal crisis in intake notes
  • * 3) medically stable (the patient's medical and psychological fitness \[including aggression\] to provide informed consent will be determined by a member of the patient's treatment team)
  • * 4) A score of 3 on the Callahan 6-item cognitive screening.
  • * 1) report current suicidal ideation (Scale for Suicidal Ideation \[SSI\]; sum of items 4 and 5 \> 0, referencing the week prior to their hospitalization) as reported during the screening interview
  • * 2) no reported use of the VHB within the past 12-months
  • * 3) own a smartphone to download the VHB app
  • * 1) do not understand English
  • * 2) are prisoners
  • * 3) are unable to provide informed consent
  • * 4) have profound psychotic symptoms and/or cognitive deficits that would prevent patients from understanding the content of the intervention and/or assessments
  • * 5) do not own a smartphone

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

VA Office of Research and Development,

Courtney L Bagge, PhD MA, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI

Study Record Dates

2028-10-31