Optimizing ReachCare for Scalability and Self-Administration

Lead: Rachel Davis-Martin; Collaborator: Celine Larkin; Consultant: Bengisu Tulu

ReachCare is a mobile application that facilitates creation of a safety plan, behavioral outpatient engagement, family support, and values-based living for patients with suicide risk. ReachCare was originally designed for clinician-guided activities that required calls to the patient to create these plans in the app, which hinders wide-spread implementation of the app due to limited clinician resources. This R03 Pilot project aims to update the content of the ReachCare app for self-administration using rule-governed chat bots and will conduct iterative user testing cycles among primary care patients to refine the updated ReachCare app, with additional focus on Hispanic and Latin patients to further improve scalability.