Journal article

Best practice for integrating digital interventions into clinical care for young people at risk of suicide: a Delphi study

E Bailey, I Bellairs-Walsh, N Reavley, P Gooding, S Hetrick, S Rice, A Boland, J Robinson

BMC Psychiatry | BMC | Published : 2024

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Abstract

Background: Digital tools have the capacity to complement and enhance clinical care for young people at risk of suicide. Despite the rapid rise of digital tools, their rate of integration into clinical practice remains low. The poor uptake of digital tools may be in part due to the lack of best-practice guidelines for clinicians and services to safely apply them with this population. Methods: A Delphi study was conducted to produce a set of best-practice guidelines for clinicians and services on integrating digital tools into clinical care for young people at risk of suicide. First, a questionnaire was developed incorporating action items derived from peer-reviewed and grey literature, and s..

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Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

This study received funding from Suicide Prevention Australia. Additional support for this study came from Future Generation Global and a NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence scheme (ID1171910). PG received funding from the Australian Research Council to enable his contribution (ARC No. DE200100483). SH is supported by an Auckland Medical Research Foundation Douglas Goodfellow Repatriation Fellowship. SR is supported by a Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship from the University of Melbourne. JR is funded by a NHMRC Investigator Grant (ID2008460) and a Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship from the University of Melbourne. The funders had no role in study design, collection, analysis, or interpretation of data, or in writing the manuscript.