NCT05458830

Breaking Down Barriers to a Suicide Prevention Helpline

Completed NA Last updated 13 July 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Brief Barrier Reduction Intervention in Suicidal Ideation in 775 participants. Completed in 1 April 2023.

Timeline

7 October 2022

Primary endpoint
5 December 2022

1 April 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	113 Suicide Prevention
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	775
Start date	7 October 2022
Primary completion	5 December 2022
Estimated completion	1 April 2023
Sites	1 location across Netherlands

Drugs / interventions tested

• Brief Barrier Reduction Intervention
• Plain advisory text

Conditions studied

• Suicidal Ideation — all drugs for Suicidal Ideation →

Sponsor

113 Suicide Prevention

Who can join

16 and older, any sex, with Suicidal Ideation. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Every month, around four thousand people fill in the anonymous self-test for suicidal thoughts on the website of the Dutch suicide prevention helpline 113 Suicide Prevention. The self-test includes the Suicidal Ideation Attributes Scale (SIDAS) and informs people about the severity of their suicidal thoughts. The vast majority (70%) of people who complete the test score higher than the cut-off point (≥ 21) for severe suicidal thoughts. Despite this, only around 10% of test-takers navigate to the webpage about contacting the helpline.

In this study the investigators test an intervention that aims to reduce barriers to contacting the helpline via chat or phone. People with severe suicidal thoughts and little motivation to contact the helpline will be randomly allocated either to a brief Barrier Reduction Intervention (BRI) or care as usual, a plain advisory text.

The aim of our study is two-fold: (i) to measure the effectiveness of a brief barrier reduction intervention (BRI) in the self-test motivating people with severe suicidal thoughts to contact the helpline, and (ii) to specifically evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention in increasing service utilisation by high-risk groups for suicide such as men and people of middle age.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Breaking Down Barriers to a Suicide Prevention Helpline: Protocol for a Web-Based Randomized Controlled Trial.
   van der Burgt MCA, Mérelle S, Brinkman WP, Beekman ATF, et al · · 2023 · cited 2× · PMID 37093641 · DOI 10.2196/41078
2. Breaking Down Barriers to a Suicide Prevention Helpline: Web-Based Randomized Controlled Trial.
   Van der Burgt MCA, Mérelle S, Brinkman WP, Beekman ATF, et al · · 2024 · cited 1× · PMID 39235321 · DOI 10.2196/56396