ArticlePilot and feasibility studies2022
SAFETEL: a pilot randomised controlled trial to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a safety planning and telephone follow-up intervention to reduce suicidal behaviour.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Acute-Phase Interventions After Self-Harm for Preventing Suicide and Recurrence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica · 2026Pooled it
- Synchronous remote-based interventions for suicidal behaviour prevention: a systematic review and meta-analyses of clinical trials.BMJ open · 2025Pooled it
- Supported Decision-Making Interventions in Mental Healthcare: A Systematic Review of Evidence on the Outcomes for People With Mental Ill Health.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Pooled it
- Supported decision-making interventions in mental healthcare: A systematic review of current evidence and implementation barriers.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Pooled it
- Effectiveness of brief interventions and contacts after suicide attempt: a systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Article
- Developing a Co-Produced Practice Framework to Support Personalised Safety Planning for Adults Experiencing Suicidality.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Context, Timing and Individualized Care: A Realist Evaluation of Safety Planning for Individuals Living with Suicide-Related Thoughts and Behaviours, Their Families and Friends and Service Providers.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Adapting Safety Plans for Autistic Adults with Involvement from the Autism Community.Autism in adulthood · 2025Article
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- Towards a Better Use of Safety Planning in Emergency Departments: An Exploratory Study of Patients and Clinicians' Perspectives.Community mental health journal · 2025Article
- Evaluating the acceptability and effectiveness of a french safety planning type interventions protocol, a post suicide attempt intervention.Scientific reports · 2025Observational
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- Re-imagining crisis care: experiences of delivering and receiving the Assured brief psychological intervention for people presenting to Emergency Departments with self-harm.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- An Ideal-Type Analysis of People's Perspectives on Care Plans Received from the Emergency Department following a Self-Harm or Suicidal Crisis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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backgroundA previous suicide attempt is an important predictor of future suicide. However, there are no evidence-based interventions administered in UK general hospital contexts to reduce suicidal behaviour in patients admitted following a suicide attempt. Consequently, the objective of this pilot randomised controlled trial was to explore whether a safety planning and telephone follow-up intervention (SAFETEL) was feasible and acceptable for individuals treated in hospital following a suicide attempt.
methodsIn this three-phase study with an embedded process evaluation, a safety planning intervention was tailored to the UK context (Phase I), piloted (Phase II, n = 32), and tested in a feasibility randomised controlled trial (Phase III). In Phase III, participants were allocated to either the intervention (n = 80) or control group (n = 40) using telephone randomisation with a 2:1 ratio. The acceptability and feasibility of the trial and intervention procedures were evaluated using both qualitative (interviews and focus groups) and quantitative data. The number of hospital representations of suicidal behaviour was also collected 6 months after study recruitment based on electronic patient records.
resultsFindings indicated that SAFETEL was both acceptable and feasible. Hospital staff reported the intervention fitted and complemented existing services, and patients reported that they favoured the simplicity and person-centred approach of the safety planning intervention.
conclusionsAll progression criteria were met supporting further evaluation of the intervention in a full-scale clinical effectiveness trial.
trial registrationISRCT, ISRCTN62181241 , 5/5/2017.
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