Piloting a culturally adapted multilevel suicide prevention intervention in schools for Black youth and their families

在学校为黑人青少年及其家人试点适应文化的多层次自杀预防干预措施

• 批准号: 10440929
• 负责人: Janelle Renee Goodwill
• 金额: $ 32.8万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10440929
• 关键词: 14 year old; Administrator; Adolescent; African American student; Age; Asphyxia; Attitude; Belief; Black American; Black race; Cause of Death; Chicago; Child; Child Mental Health; Clinical Trials; Communities; Complex; Data; Depression and Suicide; Detection; Development; Economics; Educational Curriculum; Effectiveness; Evaluation; Evidence based program; Familiarity; Family; Feedback; Feeling suicidal; Foundations; Frequencies; Future; Goals; Health Resources; Health Services Accessibility; High School Student; Hospitals; Human Resources; Individual; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Link; Mediating; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Mental Health Services; Middle School Student; Parents; Perception; Persons; Plant Roots; Positioning Attribute; Prevention program; Procedures; Randomized; Randomized Controlled Trials; Reporting; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Risk Factors; Sampling; School-Age Population; Schools; Stigmatization; Students; Suicide; Suicide attempt; Suicide prevention; Testing; Training; Work; Youth; base; children of color; cohort; design; eighth grade; evidence base; follow-up; help-seeking behavior; high school; ideation; insight; internalized stigma; junior high school; member; peer; pilot test; prevent; preventive intervention; programs; public health priorities; reducing suicide; response; service utilization; social media; social stigma; suicidal risk; teacher; therapy design; treatment services; underserved community; university student

Project Summary/Abstract The goal of this proposed study is to pilot test and evaluate the preliminary effectiveness of a school-based suicide prevention intervention tailored specifically for Black youth and those connected to Black youth (e.g., families and school personnel). Suicide was recognized in 2018 as the 2nd leading cause of death for 10 to 14- year-old Black adolescents in the U.S., yet there are few evidence-based suicide prevention interventions designed to account for the cultural factors that influence Black youth's risks for suicidality. Further – although universal school-based suicide prevention programs have great potential to alleviate disparities in access to mental health resources – most school-based suicide prevention interventions are administered to high school students. Some researchers have begun to implement prevention interventions among middle school-aged youth, but we know little about the effect universal school-based suicide prevention interventions could have for Black students residing in underserved communities. To redress this gap, we propose modifying an existing intervention with culturally adapted content by conducting a pilot RCT to assess preliminary effectiveness, tolerability, and feasibility. The Signs of Suicide (SOS) program is a school-based intervention that has demonstrated reductions in suicide attempts among middle and high school students by identifying knowledge and attitudes towards depression and suicide as key mechanisms that mediate the relation between intervention participation and a significant reduction in suicide attempts. Thus, it is important to consider how prioritizing these two mechanisms – knowledge and attitudes towards depression and suicide – may differ for Black youth whose perceptions of knowledge and attitudes of suicide may be culturally bound and influenced by stigmatized beliefs regarding help-seeing for mental health concerns. Parents views about stigma and school personnel's familiarity with suicide prevention resources may also influence Black youth's knowledge and attitudes, thus affirming the necessity of a multilevel suicide prevention intervention. We therefore propose a cultural adaptation of the SOS program that aims to: 1) Tailor the SOS intervention videos to include culturally adapted strategies for navigating stigma of receiving mental health treatment; (2) Develop culturally adapted curricula that trains parents and school personnel to (a) recognize suicide risk factors for Black youth; and (b) refer students to local mental health treatment services; and (3) Conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial (n=300) to assess feasibility, tolerability, and acceptability of reducing suicidality among Black youth across three intervention conditions (standard SOS condition; culturally adapted SOS condition; culturally adapted SOS + parent and school personnel training condition). Pre-test scores will be compared at post-test, 3-month, and 1-year follow up. Results from this study will advance our understanding of factors that contribute to and protect against suicidality in Black youth, while also providing a foundation to test and refine study procedures to implement the intervention in a larger cohort of students.

项目总结/摘要 本研究的目的，是就校本教育的初步成效进行测试及评估。 专门为黑人青年和与黑人青年有关的人量身定制的自杀预防干预措施（例如， 家庭和学校工作人员）。2018年，自杀被认为是10至14岁人群的第二大死亡原因。 在美国，然而，几乎没有基于证据的自杀预防干预措施， 旨在解释影响黑人青年自杀风险的文化因素。此外，虽然 普遍的以学校为基础的自杀预防计划有很大的潜力，以减轻在获得 心理健康资源-大多数以学校为基础的自杀预防干预措施是在高中实施的 学生一些研究人员已经开始在中学生中实施预防干预措施， 年轻人，但我们对普遍的以学校为基础的自杀预防干预措施的效果知之甚少。 为居住在服务不足社区的黑人学生提供服务。为了弥补这一差距，我们建议修改现有的 通过开展试点随机对照试验评估初步有效性， 耐受性和可行性。自杀迹象（SOS）计划是一项以学校为基础的干预措施， 通过识别知识，证明了初中和高中学生的自杀企图减少 以及对抑郁和自杀的态度作为调解 干预参与和自杀企图的显着减少。因此，重要的是考虑如何 优先考虑这两种机制-对抑郁症和自杀的知识和态度-可能会有所不同， 黑人青年，他们对自杀的认识和态度可能受到文化的束缚和影响。 关于心理健康问题的帮助的污名化信念。父母对耻辱感的看法， 学校工作人员对自杀预防资源的熟悉程度也可能影响黑人青年的知识 和态度，从而肯定了多层次自杀预防干预的必要性。因此我们建议 SOS计划的文化适应，旨在：1）定制SOS干预视频，包括 适应文化的策略，以导航接受心理健康治疗的耻辱;（2）制定文化上的 调整课程，培训家长和学校工作人员（a）认识到黑人青年的自杀风险因素; 及（B）转介学生到当地的精神健康治疗服务;及（3）进行一项试验性随机对照 一项试验（n=300），旨在评估减少黑人青年自杀倾向的可行性、耐受性和可接受性 在三种干预条件下（标准SOS条件;文化适应SOS条件;文化适应SOS条件）， 适应SOS +家长和学校人员培训条件）。测试前的分数将在测试后进行比较， 3个月和1年随访。这项研究的结果将促进我们对影响因素的理解， 防止黑人青年自杀，同时也为测试和完善研究提供了基础。 在更大的学生群体中实施干预措施的程序。