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
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
90 participants
Aug 1, 2024
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
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
Inclusion Criteria4
- Parents or legal guardians of a child ages 11-17;
- Parents or legal guardians must live with their child ≥50% of the time;
- Child must be admitted to the pediatric emergency department for a mental health crisis;
- Child must be discharged home from the emergency department with referrals to outpatient care.
Exclusion Criteria2
- Do not have daily access to a mobile phone that can receive SMS text messages;
- Do not speak and read fluently in English.
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Interventions
Automated texting intervention for parents to increase engagement in their child's outpatient mental health treatment over an 8-week period.
Weekly automated text reminders to instruct parents to make an appointment with their child's outpatient mental health provider over an 8-week period.
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NCT06456762