Adapting a Brief Suicide Intervention for Pediatric Primary Care: Enhancing Uptake and Impact
University of Washington
Summary
Suicide is a leading cause of death among adolescents in the United States and improving access to high quality just-in-time suicide interventions to reduce risk has important public health implications. Integrating such interventions into routinely accessed settings, such as pediatric primary care, holds promise; however, many clinicians in these settings fail to adequately screen or intervene in youth suicidal thoughts and behaviors, representing a key barrier to reducing suicide. The proposed study is a pre-post quasi-experimental pilot feasibility and preliminary efficacy trial of a suicide prevention intervention informed by evidence based interventions including the SAFETY-Acute suicide prevention intervention implemented in 3 pediatric primary care clinics.
Description
This project aims to take an innovative, user-centered design approach to improve suicide prevention in primary care settings to support primary care management of adolescents with low to moderate risk suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB), drawing on the evidence-based SAFETY-Acute (SAFETY-A; formerly known as Family Intervention for Suicide Prevention -aka FISP) intervention. In this trial, the investigators will conduct a pre-post quasi-experimental pilot feasibility and preliminary efficacy study of an adapted STB model of care compared to treatment as usual, with 3 primary care clinics. T…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 10+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No