NCT01894841

Veterans Coping Long-term With Active Suicide

Veterans Coping Long-Term With Suicide

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 107 (actual)
• Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The proposed study seeks to test the efficacy of an intervention to reduce suicide behaviors in Veterans. The Veterans Coping Long Term with Active Suicide Program (CLASP-VA) is an innovative, telephone-based intervention that combines elements of individual therapy, case management, and significant other/family therapy and is designed to be integrated into a VA system.

Detailed description

Suicide is a leading cause of death for military personnel, and for the first time in recorded history, rates of military suicides are exceeding civilian rates. Despite public and patient health costs associated with suicidal ideation and behavior, existing efforts haven't appreciably reduced rates of suicidal behavior in the military. Consequently, finding novel, efficacious, and acceptable methods to reduce suicide behaviors is imperative. The Veteran's Coping Long Term with Active Suicide Program (CLASP-VA) is a unique suicide reduction intervention that directly targets high-risk patients at the time of hospital discharge. It is one of the few empirically-developed and promising interventions (e.g., strong pilot data) for individuals hospitalized for suicide behavior. The primary objective of this study is to test the efficacy of the CLASP intervention compared to a treatment as usual plus Safety Assessment and Follow-up Evaluation (SAFE) control condition. Efficacy will be determined by primary outcomes including: number of attempts, number of re-hospitalizations, severity, and chronicity of suicidal ideation. A secondary objective is identifying the types of patients who receive the most benefit from the CLASP-VA intervention.

Conditions

• Suicide

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Coping Long Term with Active Suicide (CLASP)	6 month behavioral telephone-based intervention. Calls assess risk, problem solve any immediate issues, and case management
OTHER	Safety Assessment and Follow Up Evaluation	enhanced risk monitoring with full assessment protocol at 3, 6, 9, and 12 month follow up. Results sent as a note to the patient's VA mental health provider

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-02-24
• Primary completion: 2018-08-29
• Completion: 2018-08-29
• First posted: 2013-07-10
• Last updated: 2020-02-10
• Results posted: 2020-02-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States