Sust-AIns: Sustainment of Suicide Prevention Programs in American Indian Settings

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Status

Completed

Conditions

Program Sustainability

Treatments

Other: Sustainability strategies

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT03755206

IRB00008138

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed study is part of the research project for a National Institute of Mental Health K01 grant to Dr. Haroz. The overall research project is focused on understanding how to sustain evidenced-based mental and behavioral health programs in tribal contexts. The aim of this study is to pilot test sustainment strategy interventions across tribal settings using mixed-methods.

Full description

Among the most pressing issues in mental health Dissemination and Implementation research (D&I) is the lack of knowledge about how to sustain mental health prevention and treatment services for which there is substantial evidence of impact. Most D&I studies focus on adoption and initial implementation, with few studies (<20) rigorously exploring sustainment. The sustainment of services has been described as "one of the greatest, yet least understood, challenges in the field of implementation science." The gap in knowledge is even greater for low-resource contexts, as few studies have focused on these settings. This project aims to address this gap by developing and testing sustainment strategies for an evidenced-based youth suicide prevention program in a low-resource, American Indian (AI) contexts.

Enrollment

24 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Knowledgeable about the implementation of the suicide prevention program
Over the age of 18
Available to participate in required study meetings and assessments
Fluent in English

Exclusion criteria

Factors identified at baseline that preclude full participation including: being under the influence of a substance; active psychosis or mania; any other condition that makes an individual lack capacity to give consent.