Brief Intervention and Follow-Up for Suicidal Patients With Repeat Emergency Department Visits Enhances Treatment Engagement.
prospective_cohort · Level II
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- Also identified by DOI 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302656 and PMC identifier 4504270.
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Abstract
We implemented an innovative, brief, easy-to-administer 2-part intervention to enhance coping and treatment engagement. The intervention consisted of safety planning and structured telephone follow-up postdischarge with 95 veterans who had 2 or more emergency department (ED) visits within 6 months for suicide-related concerns (i.e., suicide ideation or behavior). The intervention significantly increased behavioral health treatment attendance 3 months after intervention, compared with treatment attendance in the 3 months after a previous ED visit without intervention. The trend was for a decreasing hospitalization rate.
Medical subject headings
- Emergency Service, Hospital
- Psychotherapy, Brief
- Suicide Prevention