Developing a Comprehensive Care Pathway for those at Risk of Suicide But Not In Care: the Under the Radar Project

Project Member(s): Newton-John, T., Kneebone, I.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Medical Research Future Fund
Medical Research Future Fund

Start year: 2020

Summary: As many as 60% of those who die by suicide are not in care. Many are on the internet, and state this as their preferential route to seek help. This project aims to describe and understand this group in more depth, to outline their preferences for care, and to develop, with them, using the Internet as the first point of contact, a collaborative, consumer-led, comprehensive care model that introduces digital, peer support and face to face services. The co-design process will include clinicians, peer support workers, policy and organisational leadership. Following this, the model will be evaluated relative to treatment as usual. Outcomes will be usability, value, effectiveness (ideation, attempts, self-harm, suicide) and cost effectiveness. Additional sub-studies, using AI and behavioural data (digital phenotyping), will develop optimised treatments and personalised plans. In parallel, the project will investigate, with its partner organisations, and experts in business and commercialisation, how the service can be scaled, by whom and how it will be hosted, its governance and its fit within current suicide prevention services

Publications:

Girgis, M, Paparo, J, Roberts, L & Kneebone, I 2024, 'How Do Children with Intellectual Disabilities Regulate Their Emotions? The Views of Teachers', Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 391-412.
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FOR Codes: Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology, Mental Health

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