Clinical trial NCT06611956: Needs Assessment Among Carers of Someone With Suicidal Thoughts
Official title: Needs Assessment Among Carers of Someone With Suicidal Thoughts
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Suicide Prevention
Informal Caregivers
Keywords: needs assessment
informal caregivers
suicide
Lead sponsor: University Ghent
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-09-25
Enrollment: 2134
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 16
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Participants are inidividuals (16 years or older) who know someone close to them with suicidal thoughts and/or behaviors in the past three years.

Brief summary: With this study the investigators would like to gain insight into the experienced needs carers of individuals with suicidal thoughts, who attempted suicide or who died by suicide. By carers the investigators mean everyone who knows/knew someone close to them who is thinking about suicide, attempted suicide or died by suicide. By mapping out these needs, the investigators hope to better support carers and develop/improve initiatives and tools.

The investigators examine this by means of an online one-time questionnaire. In this questionnaire the investigators ask the participants questions about what it is like to be a carer and what are some of the experienced needs, as well as experiences with existing initiatives/tools.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 16 years or older
* Someone close to them has experienced suicidal thoughts, attempted suicide or died by suicide in the past three years
* Access to internet
* Understand sufficient Dutch (to complete the questionnaire)

Exclusion Criteria:

* /

Primary outcomes:
measure: Background information: information on the participant
timeFrame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 15-20 minutes
measure: Background information: information on the suicidal person
timeFrame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 15-20 minutes
measure: Experienced burden: suicidality
timeFrame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 15-20 minutes
measure: Experienced burden when supporting the individual with suicdial thoughts
timeFrame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 15-20 minutes
measure: Experienced burden when supporting the individual with suicdial thoughts
timeFrame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 15-20 minutes
measure: Experienced burden: psychological stress
timeFrame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 15-20 minutes
measure: Experienced needs
timeFrame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 15-20 minutes
measure: Experience with existing initiatives and tools
timeFrame: Baseline. Completing the questionnaire will take about 15-20 minutes
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ghent
country: Belgium
facility: Flemish Centre of Expertise in Suicide Prevention, Ghent University
Study officials:
affiliation: Flemish Centre of Expertise in Suicide Prevention (Ghent University)
name: Gwendolyn Portzky, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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