ALGOS: the development of a randomized controlled trial testing a case management algorithm designed to reduce suicide risk among suicide attempters.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Suicide attempts (SA) constitute a serious clinical problem. People who attempt suicide are at high risk of further repetition. However, no interventions have been shown to be effective in reducing repetition in this group of patients.

Methods/design

Multicentre randomized controlled trial. We examine the effectiveness of "ALGOS algorithm": an intervention based in a decisional tree of contact type which aims at reducing the incidence of repeated suicide attempt during 6 months. This algorithm of case management comprises the two strategies of intervention that showed a significant reduction in the number of SA repeaters: systematic telephone contact (ineffective in first-attempters) and "Crisis card" (effective only in first-attempters). Participants who are lost

SUBMITTER: Vaiva G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3023738 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature