Youth Suicide Prevention: Maintaining Long Term Change
PI: Carole Hooven
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Carole Hooven
Research Assistant Professor
Psychosocial & Community Health
Box University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-7262
Email: chooven@u.washington.edu
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- Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
- Project Period: 9/30/2004 - 8/31/2010
- Current Faculty
- Kenneth Pike - Key Personnel
- Elaine Thompson - Key Personnel (6 active projects)
Suicide remains a leading cause of death among young people - each year one in five teenagers consider suicide and approximately one million attempt suicide. These rates continue to escalate into young adulthood. This proposal examines psychosocial processes associated with long-term behavioral change following participation in an indicated suicide prevention program. The proposal takes advantage of a nearly completed prevention trial, Promoting CARE funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research. The program has demonstrated short-term outcome effects for suicide-vulnerable high school aged youth. The Promoting CARE study will provide a sample of approximately 550 vulnerable youth, randomly assigned to one the three experimental conditions and compared to intervention "as usual". The study has been rigorously implemented, with extensive measures collected at baseline, post-intervention, 9 and 15 months post-intervention, and for half of the sample at 30 months. With an extended follow-up to 6- months we will 1) test for long-term intervention effects; to test the theoretic model, examining for mediational intervention effects on both short- and long-term behavioral outcomes; and 3) identify trajectories of changed across time. This proposed study is innovative and significant; it has implications for theory testing and prevention science. It should markedly increase our understanding of how family-focused preventive intervention for suicide vulnerable youth work to curb depression, anger and suicide risk behaviors. |
