Linguistic Characteristics of Suicidal Patients in the ED (Emergency Department)
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Suicide
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
- Enrollment
- 60
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Differences between questionnaire responses from adolescents with and without suicidal behavior
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 9 years ago
Overview
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.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Differences between questionnaire responses from adolescents with and without suicidal behavior
Time Frame: At time of questinnaire administration