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Implicit and Explicit Assessment of Suicide Risk

Implicit and Explicit Assessment of Suicide Risk

Status
Recruiting
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05903469
Acronym
MIERIS
Enrollment
108
Registered
2023-06-15
Start date
2022-06-28
Completion date
2026-01-31
Last updated
2025-05-29

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Implicit Association Test, Prevention, Suicide, Suicide, Suicide Risk Factor

Keywords

Implicit association test, Suicide, Prevention, Suicide, suicide risk factor

Brief summary

In 2007 Nock & Banaji developed a so-called implicit suicide risk measurement using a computer tool: the Implicit Association Test (IAT). This measurement, associated with traditional evaluations, makes it possible to better predict suicidal recurrence. In 2020, the Poitiers team of Tello was able to replicate these results on a French population. However, although a high IAT score predicts the onset of suicide at 1 year, there is no data on how this score changes over time nor even data concerning the measure's ability to differentiate a population with explicit suicidal ideation from a population without explicit suicidal ideation. The investigators therefore seek to demonstrate an evolution of implicit suicidal ideation over time by replicating the measurement at inclusion, at 6 months and at 12 months, for different patient profiles: Suicidal ideation vs No suicidal ideation and suicide attempt vs no suicide attempt. Patients will be recruited from the emergency-unit of CHU Amiens-Picardie and will take the suicide-IAT as well as various questionnaires.

Interventions

OTHERImplicit Attitude Test

The IAT (Implicit Attitude Test) is a method of indirectly measuring the relative strength of associations between different concepts stored in memory based on reaction times on computer. The general idea behind this measure is that an individual will be much faster to categorize an object into a predetermined category, if this categorization is consistent with their own way of processing information.

Sponsors

Centre Hospitalier Pinel d'Amiens
CollaboratorUNKNOWN
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Person presenting to emergencies for psychiatric reasons * Adult person * Free and informed consent signed * Person speaking and writing French fluently

Exclusion criteria

* Neurological disorders or major cognitive deterioration: presence of confusion * Acute psychotic decompensation * Troubled acute behavior * Abuse Impregnation of a toxic substance and / or drug impairing cognitive functions at the time of assessment * Adult under protective measure.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Variation of IAT score betwenn the 3 groupsone yearIAT is Implicit Attitude Test The IAT is a brief computer-administered test that uses people's reaction times when classifying semantic stimuli to measure the automatic mental associations they hold about various topics, in this case, life and death/suicide. The death/suicide IAT will be administered and scored in keeping with standard IAT procedures. Response latencies for all trials were recorded and analyzed using the standard IAT scoring algorithm.

Countries

France

Contacts

Primary ContactJérôme Thilliez, MD
thilliez.jerome@chu-amiens.fr03.22.66.82.90

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026