Linguistic Characteristics of Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Department
- Conditions
- Suicide
- Interventions
- Other: Standardized questionnaires and a ubiquitous questionnaire
- Registration Number
- NCT01594138
- Lead Sponsor
- Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
- Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether patients who have a high risk for serious suicide behavior will demonstrate a speech pattern that has a relationship to language patterns found in suicide notes.
- Detailed Description
In an average week the CCHMC Emergency Department (ED) evaluates 40 patients with suicidal behavior. Currently, there is no systematic method for assessment of suicide risk in these patients and often, emergency department staff are required to make judgments about the disposition of these patients without a full understanding of the patient's risk for another serious suicide attempt. This pilot project involves experts in child psychiatry, biomedical informatics, and emergency medicine to collect pilot data for developing a method to estimate the risk of serious suicidal behavior based on computational linguistics.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Suicidal Subjects Standardized questionnaires and a ubiquitous questionnaire Suicidal Subjects Non-Suicidal Control Subjects Standardized questionnaires and a ubiquitous questionnaire Non-Suicidal Control Subjects
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Differences between questionnaire responses from adolescents with and without suicidal behavior At time of questinnaire administration
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Cincinnati Children's Hopsital Medical Center
🇺🇸Cincinnati, Ohio, United States