Parent Intervention for Psychiatrically-Hospitalized Youth
Pilot Intervention for Parents of Psychiatrically-Hospitalized Youth
Stanford University
40 participants
May 1, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The purpose of the present study is to conduct a pilot randomized clinical trial (RCT) of a parent coaching intervention for parents of youth hospitalized for suicidal ideation, suicide attempt(s), or non-suicidal self-injury. Parents will receive either the parent coaching intervention (which includes safety planning and behavioral parenting skills training with a clinician and assistance with linkage to follow-up care by a case manager) or treatment as usual (TAU) for the inpatient unit. The long-term goal of the research is to determine if augmenting standard inpatient treatment with additional parenting intervention improves youth treatment response on suicide-related outcomes (i.e., suicidal ideation, non-suicidal self-injury, and suicide attempts). The goal of this pilot RCT is to collect preliminary data needed for a larger RCT, including feasibility, acceptability, safety, tolerability, engagement of the presumed mechanism of change (changes in parent emotions and behaviors), and signal detection of any changes in youth suicide-related outcomes.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria4
- youth is currently hospitalized on the Stanford unit at Mills Peninsula Medical Center, on the Inpatient Adolescent Psychiatry Unit, for suicidal ideation and/or a suicide attempt.
- youth is between the ages of 12-18 (18 year-old youth must still be in high school and living at home with parents for the duration of the study)
- at least one parent/guardian is willing to participate in the study intervention
- youth and parent speak English well enough to complete study treatment and assessments in English
Exclusion Criteria1
- • the youth or parent has a psychiatric or medical condition that would interfere with their ability to participate in study assessments and/or treatment (such as acute psychosis, neurological impairment, malnutrition due to anorexia)
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Interventions
The intervention will consist of 4 individual telehealth parent sessions, to be completed within one month after the teen discharges from the inpatient hospital or within one month of linkage to care whatever comes first . Sessions will be 60-90 minute in length and will be offered weekly. Therapists may see parents more than once a week if needed, as long as the total number of sessions does not exceed 4.
No parenting intervention provided beyond standard practices on the adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit.
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NCT04797455