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Text-messaging Intervention to Support Parents After Their Child's Psychiatric Emergency
Sponsor: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Summary
This grant aims to develop and test a text-messaging intervention for parents of children and teens evaluated in the emergency department for a psychiatric emergency and discharged home with outpatient referrals. The intervention for parents will teach parents skills to navigate the mental health services system and build their self-efficacy in managing their child's mental health. This research has the potential to improve services for families seeking emergency psychiatric support, with the goal of facilitating treatment engagement and reducing emergency services utilization using scalable, cost-effective, accessible tools.
Official title: Developing and Testing a Text-messaging Intervention to Support Parents After Their Child's Psychiatric Emergency
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
90
Start Date
2024-08-01
Completion Date
2026-12-31
Last Updated
2025-11-10
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
iPEACE: Intervention for Parent Education about Care after the ED
Automated texting intervention for parents to increase engagement in their child's outpatient mental health treatment over an 8-week period.
Text Messaging Reminders Only
Weekly automated text reminders to instruct parents to make an appointment with their child's outpatient mental health provider over an 8-week period.
Locations (1)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee, United States