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Improving Care, Accelerating Recovery and Education
Sponsor: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the I-CARE program in children who are in a medical hospital awaiting inpatient mental health treatment. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Can the I-CARE program be used at the medical hospitals and do the patients and hospital staff like the program? * Does the I-CARE program lower patients' emotional distress, thoughts about suicide or suicide attempts? Patients will complete as many of the 7 I-CARE videos as possible during their stay at the medical hospital and fill out online surveys. There are workbook activities that go with each I-CARE video. A hospital staff member will help the patient do the videos and workbook activities.
Official title: I-CARE: The Effectiveness of a Modular Digital Intervention to Reduce Suicidal Ideation and Emotional Distress During Pediatric Psychiatric Boarding
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
12 Years - 17 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
109
Start Date
2024-02-29
Completion Date
2026-07-31
Last Updated
2026-01-20
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Improving Care, Accelerating Recovery & Education (ICARE)
I-CARE is a brief, digital intervention designed for adolescents who are boarding in a medical hospital awaiting transfer to a psychiatric inpatient unit. It consists of 7 tablet-based animated video modules and workbook exercises, facilitated by licensed nursing assistants or other non-specialist clinicians who provide one-on-one safety supervision during boarding. All modules are grounded in evidence-based practices, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Given that one-on-one safety supervision is the current standard of care during boarding, I-CARE requires minimal additional resources beyond those already available in acute care hospitals and builds on well established research demonstrating the effectiveness of task-sharing, the redistribution of tasks within the workforce, to address the shortage of mental health professionals.
Locations (2)
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
University of Vermont Medical Center
Burlington, Vermont, United States