NCT00808873

Socio-Educational Intervention for Rural Suicide Attempters

A Randomized Control Trial of a Socio-Educational Intervention for Rural Suicide Attempters in Tianjin Municipality and Shandong Province of China

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 450 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Beijing HuiLongGuan Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Compared to a treatment-as-usual group, providing brief mental health education to suicide attempters from rural parts of China at the time of their treatment in the emergency departments of general hospitals or local clinics and 6 home-visits (FOR those subjects WITH PHONES refuse home visits, THE INTERVIEWS WILL BE CONDUCTED OVER THE PHONE) over the twelve months after the attempt demonstrate continuing concern about the attempters ('befriending'), strengthen their social support networks and improve their problem-solving skills will significantly reduce their hopelessness, the severity of depressive symptoms, and level of suicidal ideation.

Conditions

• Suicide, Attempted

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	socio-educational intervention	brief mental health education and 6 follow-up visits

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-11-01
• Primary completion: 2011-02-01
• Completion: 2011-03-01
• First posted: 2008-12-16
• Last updated: 2008-12-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China