NCT06128239

Comparing Suicide Prevention Interventions to Guide Follow-up Care: The SPRING Trial

Comparing the Effectiveness of Two-Way Caring Contacts Texts vs One-Way Caring Contacts Texts vs Enhanced Usual Care to Reduce Suicidal Behavior in Youth and Adults Screening At-Risk for Suicide in Primary Care or Behavioral Health Clinics

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 854 (actual)
• Sponsor: St. Luke's Health System, Boise, Idaho · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Pragmatic randomized controlled trial to compare the effectiveness of two-way Caring Contacts text messages vs. one-way Caring Contacts text messages vs. enhanced usual care for suicide prevention in adults and adolescents.

Conditions

• Suicide
• Suicide Prevention
• Suicide and Self-harm

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Caring Contacts	Text message version of Motto's Caring Contacts intervention. The study will compare two versions of text-based Caring Contacts: two-way messages, to which participants can respond to receive text-based support from follow-up specialists, and one-way text messages, to which participants cannot respond.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-12-29
• Primary completion: 2026-03-31
• Completion: 2026-03-31
• First posted: 2023-11-13
• Last updated: 2025-07-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States