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Therapeutic Evaluative Conditioning to Reduce Adolescents' Self-injurious Thoughts and Behaviors During and After Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitalization
Sponsor: Franciscan Hospital For Children, INC.
Summary
Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among adolescents, with the highest risk period for suicide being the month following psychiatric inpatient hospitalization. The investigators propose testing a brief, scalable intervention using evaluative conditioning aimed at reducing suicidal thoughts and behaviors among adolescents during and after inpatient hospitalization. Scalable interventions, such as the one proposed that reduce suicide risk during this markedly high-risk period, could result in large-scale decreases in suicide death.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
12 Years - 19 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
155
Start Date
2023-03-31
Completion Date
2026-12-31
Last Updated
2024-07-12
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Therapeutic Evaluative Conditioning
Participants are told which pictures are "matched pairs." They find the "matched pairs" among 4 or 8 pictures. By associating pictures and words associated with SITB (e.g., pictures of cut skin, pictures of people engaging in potentially suicidal behaviors, and the word "death") with naturally aversive images (e.g., snakes and spiders), it increases the aversion to SITB. The second goal is to increase liking toward the self by pairing self-relevant stimuli (e.g., the participant's name or other self-relevant details, as well as words like "I" and "me").
Neutral comparison condition
Match neutral pictures to account for doing an intervention.
Locations (1)
Franciscan Hospital For Children, Inc.
Brighton, Massachusetts, United States