At a glance
ClinicalIndex Comparison Record- ✓All participants must be parents/caregivers or index youth currently enrolled in Project SafeSchools cohort study
- ✓Adults must have elevated mental distress confirmed at screening/baseline visit
- ✓Youth must be 11-16 years old with elevated mental distress confirmed at screening/baseline visit
- ✓Adults must meet eligibility cutoff scores on General Distress (Kessler), Anxiety (PROMIS), Depression (CESDR-10), and/or Recent Suicide Ideation instruments
- ✕Inability to cognitively complete interventions and assessments
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Piloting +Connection is Medicine / The Healing Spirits Program
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Safety Planning Intervention and Caring Contacts for Mental Health Issue and 2 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 74 participants across 4 sites.
Detailed Summary
This study aims to assess what benefit, if any, an individualized coping plan and facilitating connections to care through referral coordination in conjunction with culturally tailored caring messages, (herein called the +Connection is Medicine intervention (Navajo Nation study name; +CiM)/The Healing Spirits Program (White Mountain Apache Tribe Study Name; HSP) have on the mental health of American Indian (AI) youth and caregivers who were previously identified as having high levels of anxiety and depression as part of their participation in a cohort study called Project SafeSchools (NIH Grant No.: OT2HD107543).
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The Safety Planning Intervention is a brief intervention that directly targets suicide risk with demonstrated efficacy and is a recommended best practice for suicide prevention. The intervention aims to provide participants with an individualized set of steps that can be used progressively to both reduce risk and maintain safety when under particular stress. It also includes a series of brief telephone calls to revise the safety plan and facilitate connections to care. The study team will adapt the intervention to target a larger range of mental health distress.
Caring contacts is a cost and time effective suicide prevention intervention. It traditionally utilizes letters and postcards that are sent to an individual to remind them that they are cared about and that they matter. Research suggests that this intervention significantly reduces the likelihood of dying by suicide and suicide attempt over a person's lifetime. This intervention has the potential to reach more individuals at risk in the community. In this study, the research team will allow participants to receive these messages by postcard/MMS and will adapt the intervention to align with cultural values.