RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT06456762

Text-messaging Intervention to Support Parents After Their Child's Psychiatric Emergency

Developing and Testing a Text-messaging Intervention to Support Parents After Their Child's Psychiatric Emergency

Sponsor

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Enrollment

90 participants

Start Date

Aug 1, 2024

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Self Efficacy Parents Mental Health Literacy Psychiatric Emergency

Summary

This grant aims to develop and test a text-messaging intervention for parents of children and teens evaluated in the emergency department for a psychiatric emergency and discharged home with outpatient referrals. The intervention for parents will teach parents skills to navigate the mental health services system and build their self-efficacy in managing their child's mental health. This research has the potential to improve services for families seeking emergency psychiatric support, with the goal of facilitating treatment engagement and reducing emergency services utilization using scalable, cost-effective, accessible tools.

Eligibility

Min Age: 18 Years

Plain Language Summary

Simplified for easier understanding

This clinical trial is studying a behavioral approach called Text Messaging Reminders Only and a behavioral approach called iPEACE: Intervention for Parent Education about Care after the ED for people with mental health literacy, parents, and other related conditions. The study is currently recruiting participants at 1 location. People eligible for this study include aged 18 Years and older.

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Interventions

BEHAVIORALiPEACE: Intervention for Parent Education about Care after the ED

Automated texting intervention for parents to increase engagement in their child's outpatient mental health treatment over an 8-week period.

BEHAVIORALText Messaging Reminders Only

Weekly automated text reminders to instruct parents to make an appointment with their child's outpatient mental health provider over an 8-week period.