None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The primary purpose of the study is to determine if providing a group of individuals who present to the emergency department with suicidal behaviour with a handbook containing activities to perform over 8 weeks reduces the severity and intensity of their suicidal ideation when compared to a group receiving treatment as usual. We believe that the group receiving treatment as usual plus the handbook with activities to perform will have lower mean suicidal ideation severity and intensity scores than the group receiving treatment as usual alone.
Interventions
INTERVENTION
The positive psychology intervention will involve the serial completion of activities (known as positive activities) over a period of eight weeks; one activity per week. The positive activities to be performed are: Week 1 - "What Went Well"?; Week 2: Gratitude Letter; Week 3 - Acts of Kindness; Week 4 - Best Possible Future Self; Week 5 - Nurturing Social Relationships; Week 6 - Get Active; Week 7- Committing to Your Goals; and Week 8 - Increasing 'Flow' Experiences. The activitie
INTERVENTION The positive psychology intervention will involve the serial completion of activities (known as positive activities) over a period of eight weeks; one activity per week. The positive activities to be performed are: Week 1 - "What Went Well"?; Week 2: Gratitude Letter; Week 3 - Acts of Kindness; Week 4 - Best Possible Future Self; Week 5 - Nurturing Social Relationships; Week 6 - Get Active; Week 7- Committing to Your Goals; and Week 8 - Increasing 'Flow' Experiences. The activities take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete and only needed to be completed once during the week. Adherence will be monitored through bi-weekly phone calls to the participant to check activity completion. Participants will also be required to keep a diary recording activity completion. This will be collected by the study investigators at the end of the intervention phase.
Sponsors
Kosta Tabakakis (PhD Candidate)
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used) (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Individuals who present to the CHCH ED: 1) 16 years or older; 2) With a presenting complaint which includes suicidal ideation or plan for suicide, or who have made a suicide attempt; 3) Have the physical and cognitive capacity to meet the requirements of the study.
Exclusion criteria
1) Inability to read or understand English; 2) Current psychotic disorder; 3) Current homicide risk; 4) Life-threatening medical condition requiring hospitalisation; 5) Admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit; 6) Lack capacity to give informed consent; 7) Leave the ED against medical advice or without being seen; 8) Unwilling to be randomised or followed up per study protocol; 9) Currently in prison; 10) Will be living outside of Christchurch for the follow-up period; 11) Unable to provide two contact phone numbers.
Outcome results
None listed