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SAFETY-A for Promoting Equity in Suicide Prevention Outcomes in Schools
Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles
Summary
This study will adapt Safe Alternatives For Teens and Youth - Acute (SAFETY-A) for implementation in low-resourced school districts to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in mental health service use (MHS) following identification of suicide risk in youth. SAFETY-A will be adapted to fit the organizational context of school districts and to reduce mistrust of MHS, internalized stigma, and concealment of youth emotional distress that arise in school suicide risk assessments with Asian American and Latinx students. Following a prototyping case series, a feasibility trial will assign four districts to the timing of SAFETY-A implementation to generate preliminary data on feasibility and impacts on proposed mechanisms and youth MHS utilization and clinical outcomes across racial/ethnic groups.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
11 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
347
Start Date
2022-11-01
Completion Date
2025-08
Last Updated
2025-02-28
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Safe Alternatives for Teens and Youth-Acute for Schools (SAFETY-A for Schools)
SAFETY-A is a brief, family centered, cognitive-behavioral approach to therapeutic risk assessment and safety planning that can be delivered via school-based providers. The intervention is delivered in one session during which the youth at risk for suicidal behavior works with the provider to identify strengths, supports, understand emotional antecedents and warning signs, identify alternative coping behaviors and thoughts, and ways to keep the environment safe. Youth and families receive follow-up contacts by phone at 1, 2, and 4 weeks after the SAFETY-A session. The primary focus is on the therapeutic mechanisms of hope, reduced intensity of suicidal urges, increased confidence in ability to keep safe. Adaptation of SAFETY-A for Schools will target mechanisms that are presumed to drive disparities in mental health service use among Asian American and Latinx youth: (1) trust in mental health services, (2) internalized stigma, and (3) comfort communicating distress.
Locations (1)
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States