Suicide and Self-harm
Conditions
Brief summary
Background: For 40 years, brief contact interventions (BCIs) have been presented as promising approaches in suicide prevention but patient's experiences of BCIs are less investigated. Aim: Understand mechanisms of BCIs after suicide attempt, through patient's experience of a French BCI Stay in contact and assess its impact on seeking care during suicidal crisis. Method:This is a single-center, non-interventional, prospective qualitative study using phone call interview on a BCI, 6 months after suicide attempt behavior. Statistical analysis Data were analyzed using statistical software (Version 9.4, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, North Carolina, USA). Chi-squared test was used to assess qualitative variables and t-test to evaluate quantitative variables, with p\<.05 considered significant.
Detailed description
The baseline interviews were conducted on the phone, on weekdays, during a mean time of 10 to 15minutes by a trained resident in psychiatry as the only interviewer. The interviewer didn't participate in patient's medical care nor in the follow-up interventions. The interviewer didn't look in patients file before conducted over the phone interviews and had only administrative information on the study subjects: first and last name, age, sex, phone number. The phone call interview wasn't considered as an intervention. Whenever the interviewer judged necessary that a patient needed more intensive treatment, the relevant referral to help was done.
Interventions
OTHEROver the phone interviews on the BCI Stay in Contact
This study used phone call interviews on a BCI Stay in Contact, 6 months after suicide attempt behavior.The questionnaire used for the interview of included suicide attempters was pilot tested to assess acceptability and feasibility of the study. It included 24 questions, which were based on literature's data.They covered seeking care and help items and assess the subjective quality appreciation of medical care in the PED and on the BCI.Closed-ended and multiple-choice questions were mixed. Included patients were informed that the questionnaire was anonymous and that seeking their views and feedbacks would help adjusting the implementation of follow-up interventions closer to their needs.The baseline interviews were conducted on the phone, on weekdays, during a mean time of 10 to 15minutes by a trained resident in psychiatry as the only interviewer.
Sponsors
Central Hospital, Nancy, France
Study design
Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* be male or female, be aged 18 or older, have a situation permitting follow-up contacts by phone.
Exclusion criteria
* be placed under supervision by the law such as guardianship and curatorship, be incarcerated and refusing to participate to the BCI
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| outpatients' experiences of the BCI Stay in contact | At the closure of the BCI Stay in contact, an average of 6 months after suicide attempt | to assess the outpatients' experiences of the BCI Stay in contact using an hetero questionnaire completed over the phone by patients who benefited from the BCI. |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed