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Supporting Caregivers Following Mental Health Emergency Department Visits

Who can join

Ages 10 to 17 · All sexes

Inclusion Criteria:

* Participants are eligible for participation in the current study if they are parent/guardians of youth ages 10-17 who received a psychiatric evaluation in the ED for suicidal thoughts or behaviors and are being discharged with a safety plan

Exclusion Criteria:

* Parents/guardians will be excluded from recruitment if the youth is in state custody, if they are not proficient in English or Spanish, if the patient is being admitted or transferred for medical or psychiatric hospital admission, or they are not willing to enroll in MyChart through the EMR. The investigators are also only enrolling one caregiver per patient. In other words, if a patient returns to the ED with a different caregiver, the investigators will not enroll the other caregiver.

About the study

The investigators plan to conduct a pilot hybrid effectiveness-implementation type 1 randomized controlled trial comparing 3 arms of varying follow-up intervention. Caregivers of youth ages 10-17 who present to the Lurie Children's Hospital ED with suicidal thoughts or behaviors (STBs) and are discharged with a safety plan will be included in the current study. Families will be randomized to receive either 1) treatment as usual, 2) follow-up phone calls, or 3) automatic electronic medical record (EMR) MyChart messages

What is being tested

• Telephone Calls (behavioral)
• Automatic MyChart Messages (behavioral)

Sponsor: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago · Participants: 75 · Started: Jan 26, 2026

Contact the study team

• Amanda Burnside, PhD · Phone: 312-227-2785
• Danielle Cory, MENG · Phone: 3122276312

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT07411300

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• Suicide

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.