Primary Prevention Youth Suicide Trial in Colorado High Schools Prevention Among Colorado High School Students

University of Florida

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sexual Violence; Suicide

Treatments: Behavioral: Sources of Strength (SOS) Prevention Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT03014271

2016-U-0436 (Other Identifier)

GRANT12174446 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

IRB201702833

1U01CE002841-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Sources of Strength is an evidence based program for youth suicide that trains student key leaders to strengthen social connectedness and healthy norms school-wide and is listed on the National Registry of Evidence Based Programs and Practices (NREPP). This project will expand the existing evidence base by evaluating Sources of Strength for sexual violence outcomes in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in twenty-four high schools.

Full description

At present few programs systematically address broader social-ecological factors such as school-wide norms and youth-adult connectedness that research identifies as major drivers of sexual violence. To address this gap, this application proposes a large-scale RCT evaluation of Sources of Strength to evaluate for sexual violence perpetration outcomes. Sources of Strength is an evidence based program for youth suicide that trains student key leaders to strengthen social connectedness and healthy norms school-wide and is listed on the National Registry of Evidence Based Programs and Practices (NREPP). This project will expand the existing evidence base by evaluating Sources of Strength for sexual violence outcomes, which has never been done before. Twenty-four high schools will be recruited and stratified (rural or urban) and randomly assigned to one of two conditions: (a) immediate Sources of Strength intervention, (b) wait-list for Sources of Strength Implementation after 16 months.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 19 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• high school student in participating school, parents did not withdraw from study

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 2 patient groups

Sources of Strength Suicide (SOS)

Experimental group

Description:

Receive Sources of Strength Suicide (SOS) Prevention Program

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sources of Strength (SOS) Prevention Program

SOS Waitlist Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Delayed implementation of Sources of Strength Suicide Prevention Program after 16 months.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sources of Strength (SOS) Prevention Program