Suicide is a major public health issue. Repeated self-harm may lead to potential future suicide deaths. In addition, it may lead to substantial loss in medical costs. Recently, smartphones have been widely used. Researchers started to apply mobile health to support individuals with self-harm experiences and to combine brief contact interventions which require lower cost to reduce repeated self-harm. However, the research evidence remains sparse. Furthermore, self-harm behaviors might be influenced by different cultural contexts. There is a need to conduct local studies in Taiwan. The aim of this study is to establish a co-design team which includes service users and service providers, to collaboratively develop a text- and web-based brief contact intervention (BCI) to reduce repeated self-harm, and to evaluate the feasibility of the intervention.
Age range
20 Years
Sex
ALL
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The acceptability of the intervention to participants
Timeframe: within 3 months of study completion
The feasibility of intervention to participants
Timeframe: within 3 months of study completion
Participant recruitment
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Participant retention rate
Timeframe: 3 month
Participant retention rate
Timeframe: 6 month
Number of repeated self-harm episodes (self-report)
Timeframe: 3 month
Number of repeated self-harm episodes (self-report)
Timeframe: 6 month
Number of repeated self-harm episodes (nationwide self-harm registry)
Timeframe: 3 month
Number of repeated self-harm episodes (nationwide self-harm registry)
Timeframe: 6 month