Electronic protocol for suicide risk management in research participants.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe an electronic, telephone-delivered, suicide risk management protocol (SRMP) that is designed to guide research staff and safely triage study participants who are at risk for self-harm.

Methods

We tested the SRMP in the context of the NIH-funded randomized clinical trial "Bypassing the Blues" in which 302 patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) were screened for depression and assessed by telephone 2-weeks following hospital discharge and at 2-, 4-, and 8-month follow-up. We programmed the SRMP to assign different risk levels based on patients' answers from none to imminent with action items for research staff keyed to each of them. We describe frequency of suicidal thinking, SRMP use, and completion of specific steps in th

SUBMITTER: Herbeck Belnap B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4422492 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature