Linguistic Characteristics of Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Department

Completed

• Conditions: Suicide

• 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-09
• Primary Completion: 2011-11
• Study First Submitted: 2012-04-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-05-07
• Study First Posted: 2012-05-08
• Study Completion: 2014-07
• Status Verified: 2017-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-02-13
• Last Update Posted: 2017-02-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Differences between questionnaire responses from adolescents with and without suicidal behavior	At time of questinnaire administration

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Cincinnati Children's Hopsital Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States