You Belong and You Matter: An Exploration of Self-injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in LGTBQ+ Individuals

NCT07218861 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: ULouisville
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 55
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Individuals with minoritized sexual and gender identities (i.e., LGBTQ+ individuals) are at a greater risk for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors than their cisgender, straight peers (Haas et al., 2010; Liu et al., 2017; Gorse, 2022). There is a dearth of empirically supported interventions for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (Linehan, 2008; Riblet et al., 2017), and those that exist are not tailored to people in the LGBTQ+ community (Gorse, 2022; Haas et al., 2010). Therefore, the aim of this study is to test the effectiveness of a brief LGBTQ+ affirming text message intervention in reducing self-injurious thoughts and behaviors among LGBTQ+ individuals.

Conditions

Supportive Messages; Control

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Self-injurious thoughts and behavior

  self reported

  last two hours

Study Arms (2)

Supportive Message Condition

EXPERIMENTAL

Supportive messages

Behavioral: Supportive Messages

No Message Control

NO INTERVENTION

Control

Interventions

Supportive Messages BEHAVIORAL

Participants received 28 supportive messages (2 per day) for 14 days

Supportive Message Condition

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• be 18 years or older b) have an LGBTQ+ identity (e.g., a sexual orientation other than exclusively straight and/or a gender identity other than exclusively cisgender) c) report at least one self-injurious thought (e.g., suicidal or nonsuicidal self-injury ideation), or behavior (nonsuicidal self-injury, suicide attempt) in the last month

You may not qualify if:

• Younger than 18, exclusivilty cisgender, heterosexual, no history of SITB in the last month

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Louisville: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky, 40208, United States

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: FACTORIAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 16, 2025
• First Posted: October 20, 2025
• Study Start: March 15, 2024
• Primary Completion: October 30, 2024
• Study Completion: October 30, 2024
• Last Updated: October 20, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-10

Locations

US (1)