Adapting a Brief Suicide Intervention for Pediatric Primary Care: Enhancing Uptake and Impact

Conditions

• Suicide Prevention

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

10 Years - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• Pilot Intervention — BEHAVIORAL
  This intervention is a suicide prevention intervention that will be adapted from evidence-based suicide prevention interventions including the SAFETY-Acute program. The specific intervention components will be determined from information gathered in this study but the investigators anticipate will include components such as identifying strengths, coping skills, safety planning, lethal means restriction, psychoeducation, motivation building, and care linkage.
• Treatment as Usual — BEHAVIORAL
  Treatment as usual delivered in participating clinics.

Study Details

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.

Key Dates

Start date

May 4, 2026

Status verified

May 2026

Primary completion

Oct 31, 2027

Completion

Mar 31, 2028

Study Design

Enrollment

48 participants (estimated)

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Arms

• Active Comparator: Treatment as usual
  Arm 1 entails months 1-2 of this study. Treatment as usual will be delivered by providers to adolescent patients in their clinics during the first two months of this study. Treatment as usual will be defined by each individual clinic based on their existing clinic protocols.
• Experimental: Pilot Intervention
  Arm 2 entails months 3-4 of this study. Participating providers will deliver the adapted pilot intervention for the second half (months 3-4) of the pilot trial. The intervention will be based on the evidence-based suicide prevention interventions including the SAFETY-Acute protocol and will be adapted based on information from potential users prior to piloting. It is anticipated that both adolescent patients and their parents/caregivers will be involved in the intervention. Anticipated components of the intervention include psychoeducation, coping skills, safety planning, lethal means restriction, parenting skills, communication skills, identifying adolescent and family strengths, and linking to longer term care.

Primary Outcome Measure

Feasibility of Intervention Measure [ Time Frame: Participant and providers complete approximately 2 weeks after completing intervention ]

Central Contacts

• Sarah Danzo, PhD
  206-987-1786
  [email protected]

Locations (3)

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