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Lock and Protect: Reducing Adolescent Access to Lethal Means of Suicide
Sponsor: Columbia University
Summary
The primary goal is to determine the acceptability and feasibility of implementing the Lock and Protect decision aid. The secondary goals are to identify the potential short-term impact of Lock and Protect on home firearm and medication storage, parental self-efficacy. Using interviews with caregivers, the study will clarify the acceptability, feasibility, and barriers to implementing the Lock and Protect hone safety plan. This will allow further development of effective strategies to subsequently further test and use Lock and Protect in the ED. NOTE: The study will only recruit guardians and their adolescents from the pediatric ED at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital NY-Presbyterian.
Official title: Lock and Protect: An Emergency Department Randomized Controlled Trial to Reduce Adolescent Access to Lethal Means of Suicide
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
13 Years - 17 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
50
Start Date
2025-09-11
Completion Date
2027-03
Last Updated
2025-12-05
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Lock and Protect is a self-administered, web-based decision aid for caregivers of adolescents at risk for suicide.
Lock and Protect is a user-friendly web-based decision aid that identifies preferences and explores options for removing or storing lethal means safety through: (a) education on home means of suicide, such as firearms, medications, and other potentially dangerous home and external items/situations (e.g., poisons, methods/ligatures used in suffocation/hanging), and community hazards (e.g., subways, heights); (b) safe storage options; and (c) protective monitoring and supervision as a means of increasing adolescent safety during a time of elevated risk.
Locations (1)
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, Pediatric Emergency
New York, New York, United States