Suicide-focused CBT app may reduce repeated suicide attempts

Key takeaways:

Use of a smartphone therapy app did not reduce time to first suicide attempt.

However, patients with a prior suicide attempt had a significant reduction in repeated suicide attempts.

Perspective from Tom Zaubler, MD, MPH

A smartphone app designed for therapeutic intervention did not impact time until suicide attempt after hospitalization but did reduce repeated attempts for patients with prior suicide attempts, according to results of a randomized study.

In a study published in JAMA Network Open , Craig J. Bryan, PsyD, ABPP , who served as clinical psychologist and director of the division of recovery and resilience at The Ohio State University College of Medicine during the conduct of the study and currently as professor in the department of psychiatry at the Un