Collaborative Hub to Reduce the Burden of Suicide Among Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Young Adults
University of Colorado, Denver
Summary
This study compares the effectiveness of a program to detect and manage suicide risk among American-Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth. Half of the participants will receive caring text messages to reduce suicidal thoughts, attempts, and hospitalizations and to increase engagement, social connectedness, and resilience in at-risk youth. The other half will receive usual care that does not include the caring text messages.
Description
The study, "Suicide in Urban Natives: Detection and Networks to Combat Events," builds on Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to treatment (SBIRT), carried out through the primary care setting, to detect and manage suicide risk. This approach is multilevel, targeting both the healthcare system and the individual, and links screening to existing mobile phone technologies shown to promote resilience and to tap the protective benefits of social connectedness. This Collaborative Hub will conduct a randomized control trial that compares the effectiveness of enhancing these SBIRT programs by…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–34 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * Self-identify as American Indian or Alaska Native; * Screen positive for mild, moderate, or severe risk of suicidality (referred by a clinical provider); * Have a text-enabled mobile phone; * Willing to be contacted by text; * Able to participate voluntarily; * Speak and read English; * Cognitively able to independently provide written informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Under age 18 * In danger of imminent self-harm; * Hospitalized
Interventions
- BehavioralSBIRT+12
The standard SBIRT model is augmented by a 12 month period following identification of suicide risk during which participants received caring text messages adapted from empirically-based, effective interventions for suicide prevention among American Indian and Alaska Native young adults.
- BehavioralSBIRT+Usual Care
Patients receive usual SBIRT care
Location
- First Nations Community HealthSourceAlbuquerque, New Mexico