Clinical Trial: Developing and Piloting an Implementation Strategy for a Brief, Motivational Interviewing-based Lethal Means Safety Counseling Intervention in Primary Care Settings

U.S., Nov. 26 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07247916) titled 'Developing and Piloting an Implementation Strategy for a Brief, Motivational Interviewing-based Lethal Means Safety Counseling Intervention in Primary Care Settings' on Nov. 14.

Brief Summary: Suicide prevention remains a significant priority and nearly three-quarters of Veteran suicides result from firearm injury. Since access to lethal means of self-harm increases the risk of injury, the VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines recommend that Veterans with elevated suicide risk receive lethal means safety (LMS) counseling to reduce access to lethal means, including firearms. However, no LMS counseling interventions have been tested wit...