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NCT Number: NCT06701006

Integrated Suicide Supports and Safety Planning for Youth

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate an app to help keep teens and young adults with suicidal thoughts safe. The app includes a safety plan created by adolescents and healthcare providers, and videos to encourage supportive communication and skills for teens and young adults to stay safe. The main question it aims to answer is whether the use of an app can increase youth suicide-related coping for youth with suicidal ideation, parent/caregiver suicide prevention self-efficacy, and healthcare provider self-efficacy in suicide management. Researchers will compare usual care to usual care with the app. Participants, including adolescents, caregivers, and healthcare providers, will use the ISSP app (if assigned to that group) and view video content and complete three online surveys.

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Key information

Age range

13 year–21 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Seattle Children's Hospital

Seattle, Washington, 98115, United States

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Adia Abler, BA

CONTACT

[email protected]

206-884-1895

Cari McCarty, PhD

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Laura Richardson, MD MPH

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

About this study

The current study aims to evaluate the Jaspr app relative to usual care among youth (ages 13-21 years) who indicate suicidal ideation in pediatric medical settings. The Jaspr app includes supported safety planning between the young person and the healthcare provider, as well as skills and support videos for youth and caregivers intended to increase coping and decrease distress with an opportunity to access these resources through an at home app. Adolescents, parents, and clinicians will participate in the project to assess the effectiveness of Jaspr augmenting usual care, compared to usual care alone. The study will use a pre-post design in which each setting begins with a control period and then transitions to the addition of Jaspr following healthcare provider training on use of the app. Participants and their parents/caregivers will receive study assessments at baseline, 1-month, and 2-month follow up timepoints, and healthcare providers complete a survey at baseline, and the end of each period (control and intervention). Study assessments with youth will ask about coping, suicidal ideation and severity, anxiety and depression, service utilization, functional impairment, access to lethal means, and acceptability of the app. Study assessments for parents/caregivers will ask about their self-efficacy in managing their youth's suicidality, acceptability of the videos/app, and service utilization for the youth. Healthcare providers will complete surveys assessing their self-efficacy in managing youth suicidality and feasibility of use of the app. Youth, their legal guardian, and healthcare providers each assent/consent to participate in the research procedures.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Youth Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age 13 -21 years, an Ask Suicide Questions (ASQ) screen score of 1-5 with active ideation (not solely a history of a prior attempt) but no current plan or intent, or patient-reported suicidal thoughts and behaviors during a clinical assessment in a medical setting who are judged by a clinician to be appropriate for conducting higher level assessment in that setting (including a BSSA and/or safety planning) in order to support care at home.
  • Parents/guardians: One "parent" per AYA will also be invited to participate.
  • HCPs: All HCPs in participating settings who may conduct assessments of SI and safety planning (physicians, nurse practitioners/physician's assistants, social workers, mental health counselors, psychologists) will be invited to participate.
  • All subjects must have access to the internet and a computer or tablet device.

Youth Exclusion Criteria:

  • Concurrently enrolled in an affiliated Suicide Care Research Center study, no phone access, or non-English speaking.

Treatment and study plan

Integrated skills and safety planning app

Other

This is a digital app that includes supported safety planning resources in medical settings as well as coping skills and lived experience videos for adolescents, young adults and parents/caregivers that can be accessed while in the medical setting or at home.

Other names: Jaspr

Primary outcomes

  1. Youth Suicide-Related Coping

    Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 2 month

    Total Score on the 17-item Youth Suicide-Related Coping Scale

  2. Parent suicide prevention self-efficacy

    Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 2 month

    Total score on the Parent suicide prevention self-efficacy scale

  3. Healthcare provider self-efficacy in suicide management

    Time frame: Baseline, end of control period, and end of intervention period

    Total score on the Provider suicide Intervention Questionnaire

Secondary outcomes

  1. Safety Plan Quality

    Time frame: Up to 1 month

    Safety Planning Scoring Algorithm (SPISA) based on youth medical chart review

  2. Youth Suicide Severity

    Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 2 month

    Total score on the online self-report version of the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)

  3. Youth Anxiety Symptoms

    Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 2 month

    Total Score on Youth Self-Reported Generalized Anxiety Disorder -7 item scale

  4. Intervention Acceptability

    Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 2 month

    Youth and Parent Report on the Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM)

  5. Functional Impairment

    Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 2 month

    Total score on the youth reported EQ-5D-Y quality of life measure

  6. Youth Suicidal ideation

    Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 2 month

    Total Score on the Harkavy Asnis Suicide Scale ideation subscale (HASS-I),

  7. Youth Depressive Symptoms

    Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 2 month

    Total score on the Patient Health Questionnaire 9

Other outcomes

  1. Access to Lethal Means

    Time frame: 1 month

    BRFSS Module 17 - Youth report of access to a firearm

  2. Intervention Feasibility

    Time frame: Baseline, 1 month, 2 month

    Healthcare Provider Report on the Feasibility of Intervention Measure (FIM)

  3. Mental Health Services Use

    Time frame: Baseline, 2 months

    Dichotomous rating of any mental health service use following baseline using chart review or indication based on parent or youth report on the Services Assessment for Children and Adolescents (SACA)

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Laura Richardson, MD, MPH

CONTACT

[email protected]

206-987-2028

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Washington

Other

Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  • Seattle Children's Hospital

Registry information

Official study title

Integrated Screening and Safety Planning (ISSP) for Adolescents With Suicidal Thoughts

Acronym: ISSP

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Nov 22, 2024
Registry last updated
May 18, 2026

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