CYP-NH-SAPhE: Mental Health Safety Assessment Psychometric Evaluation
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A psychometric evaluation of an evidence based, person-centred tool to assess suicide and self-harm risk in children and young people presenting to acute paediatric inpatient hospital settings in mental health crisis.
IRAS ID
226284
Contact name
Joseph Manning
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Nottingham Univeristy Hospitals Trust Research & Innovation
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 3 months, 7 days
Research summary
Why: There are increasing numbers of children and young people coming to hospital in mental health crisis. They often feel very stressed and vulnerable during this time. This can cause unsafe thoughts or behaviours , such as harming themselves or having thoughts or behaviours about ending their life. It is important that the doctors and nurses caring for these children and young people assess their safety fully so that they can provide safe care for them. We have developed a questionnaire which assesses children and young people’s safety when admitted to hospital in mental health crisis. We wish to test how accurate and reliable this questionnaire is with children and young people experiencing mental health crisis and those that are not.
Who: 200-400 Children and Young People (10-19 years) presenting to acute hospital settings in mental health crisis (cases: 100-200) or physical medical illness or injury with no current mental health crisis (non-cases: 100-200).
Where: Acute hospital settings; Emergency Departments and Paediatric wards across three NHS Trusts: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
How: We will recruit Children and Young People. Parental consent and child assent will be provided for children under 16 years.
Measures: A registration form: primary reason for hospital attendance (ICD-10 categories), mental health crisis hospital presentation (past 6 months), demographics (date of birth, gender, ethnicity, NHS site, Site setting, NHS number, Hospital number) Treating physician and GP details. The Mental Health Safety Assessment Tool will be completed with cases and non-cases; twice with two different registered clinical staff for cases. A paediatric suicide risk measure (Columbia Suicide Severity Scale) will be completed with cases only. Clinical utility will be investigated through statistical tests.
Duration: Participation of cases is 30 minutes, and non-cases 15 minutes.REC name
East Midlands - Derby Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/EM/0347
Date of REC Opinion
19 Oct 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion