Developing theory-informed implementation strategies to embed a suicide safety planning intervention app into a psychiatric emergency department: co-design study using the Behaviour Change Wheel.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Safety planning is a commonly used, evidence-based intervention for suicide prevention. There is a need for continuous engagement with safety plans post-discharge, and the improvement of safety plan portability has been discussed within our mental health organisation. This has led to the development of an app, called the Hope App. This study aims to implement this app into routine practice in a Canadian psychiatric emergency department.

Aims

We aimed to describe a collaborative, theoretically driven approach to co-design implementation strategies to elicit behaviour change among emergency department clinicians; co-develop a set of tailored, theory-informed, multifaceted implementation strategies for embedding an app into a psychiatric emergency department; and des

SUBMITTER: Shin HD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12451544 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature