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Group (Project Life Force) vs. Individual Suicide Safety Planning RCT
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Project Life Force and Treatment as Usual for Suicide. Completed, enrolled 294 participants across 2 sites.
Detailed Summary
The management of suicide risk is a pressing national public health issue especially among Veterans. This grant consists of two arms: the novel treatment and treatment-as-usual. "Project Life Force" (PLF), a novel suicide safety planning group intervention has been developed to provide a mechanism to develop and enhance the Suicide Safety Plan (SSP) over time. PLF, a 10-session, group intervention, combines cognitive behavior therapy (CBT)/dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skill based, and psychoeducational approaches, to maximize suicide safety planning development and implementation. Veterans revise their plans over several weeks while learning coping, emotion regulation, and interpersonal skills to incorporate into their safety plans.
Study Details
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Interventions
A novel, 10-session group intervention to enhance currently mandated VA suicide safety planning by involving Veterans who are at high-risk for suicidal. The PLF intervention augments the SSP in a group treatment with skills training, and psychoeducation, to maximize use and effectiveness of the plan. Overall, PLF aims to enhance suicide coping skills, safety planning and connection to others. The primary purpose is to enhance the safety plan with skills training in emotion regulation, building of support and distress tolerance, and enable even acutely-suicidal Veterans to be able to implement the steps of the safety plan.
The comparison condition will be an assessment-only treatment-as-usual (TAU). Participants in the TAU condition will receive safety planning and specified clinical support, as mandated by their high-risk status.