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Can a phone app stop suicide? new trial aims to find out
NCT ID NCT07160465
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether a smartphone app called emma, used alongside the standard VigilanS program, can reduce suicide events (like attempts or hospital visits) in adults who recently attempted suicide. The app lets users quickly contact crisis support, tracks mood, and offers coping tools. Researchers will follow 632 participants for 6 months to see if the app makes a difference.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- emma smartphone application
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this app could provide real-time support and risk detection for people at high risk of suicide, potentially reducing suicide attempts and deaths.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early-stage trial with no prior efficacy data. The app relies on self-reporting and smartphone access, which may not suit everyone. Results may not generalize beyond the French healthcare system.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 632 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Sep 2025
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Mar 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Subject aged 18 or over * Subject benefiting from the VigilanS program (after an admission to an emergency ward following a suicide attempt) * Subject with his own smartphone (iOS/Androïd) * Subject able to understand the nature, purpose and methodology of the study * Subject must be covered by public health insurance * Signed informed consent form Exclusion Criteria: * Subject unable to read or/and write French * Planned longer stay outside the region that prevents compliance with the visit plan * Being protected by the law (tutorship or curatorship) * Being deprived of liberty by administrative decision * Being in a period of exclusion compared to another protocol * Pregnant and breastfeeding women
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
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The places running it
1 site. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University hospital
Montpellier, 34295, France
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