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The feasibility of using smartphone apps to manage self-harm and suicidal acts in adolescents admitted to an inpatient mental health ward.
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- Translating Suicide Safety Planning Components Into the Design of mHealth App Features: Systematic Review.JMIR mental health · 2024Pooled it
- Mobile applications in adolescent psychotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Delivering real-time support for self-injury: A systematic review on ecological momentary interventions.Internet interventions · 2025Review
- Digital Platform for the Prevention of Suicidal Behaviour and Non-Suicidal Self-Injuries in Adolescents: The SmartCrisis-Teen Study Protocol.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Is a smartphone application (BlueIce) acceptable and safe for university students who self-harm: an open study.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Designing Implementation Strategies for a Digital Suicide Safety Planning Intervention in a Psychiatric Emergency Department: Protocol for a Multimethod Research Project.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Information and communication technology-based interventions for suicide prevention implemented in clinical settings: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- A randomized 3-month, parallel-group, controlled trial of CALMA m-health app as an adjunct to therapy to reduce suicidal and non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors in adolescents: study protocol.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Collaborative to Increase Lethal Means Counseling for Caregivers of Youth With Suicidality.Pediatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of this study is to assess the feasibility (uptake, retention and adherence) and acceptability of a combination of smartphone apps to deliver a digitized safety plan,
methodsParticipants in this pre-post pilot study included 20 adolescents between 13-18 years, presenting with self-harming or suicidal behaviors in an inpatient psychiatric ward at a tertiary pediatric hospital. Participants were familiarized with the apps and completed baseline measures prior to discharge. They used the apps for six weeks before completing the follow-up survey, which measured feasibility and acceptability of the apps, as well as suicide resilience.
resultsSeventeen participants completed the pilot. Most of the sample accessed both apps at least once, three accessed the BeyondNow safety plan five times or more, and six used the BlueIce toolbox five times or more. A total of 73.5% of the sample that experienced a crisis used at least one of the apps at least once. Forty seven percent felt that the apps would not keep them safe when in crisis, although almost all of the sample rated both apps as easy to use (94% for BeyondNow, and 82% for BlueIce). Medium to large effect sizes were also found with regard to improvements in suicide resilience.
conclusionBoth apps were found to be feasible and acceptable in this population, and easy to use, although no conclusions can be drawn regarding the clinical efficacy of the apps.
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