Brief Intervention for Suicide Risk Reduction in High-Risk Adolescents (ASAP I) Study
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Dates: 2/1/2014-11/30/2017
The study focused on helping teens who had strong thoughts of suicide or had recently tried to harm themselves. Researchers created a short treatment called ASAP that could be given while teens were still in the hospital and before they moved to outpatient care, which is the time when suicide risk was highest. The program included three parts: helping teens stick with treatment, making a safety plan, and teaching ways to keep a positive mood, like getting support from friends, staying sober, and improving sleep. Families were involved, and a phone app was designed to help teens follow their safety plan after leaving the hospital. The team tested the program in several steps, starting with interviews, then small trials, and finally a larger study comparing ASAP plus regular care to regular care alone. The goal was to see if ASAP could make teens safer, help them attend follow-up care, and reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
Selected Primary Outcome Papers:
- PubMed Central - Developing a Brief Suicide Prevention Intervention and Mobile Phone Application: A Qualitative Report
- PubMed Central - Factors Associated with Reasons for Living Among Suicidal Adolescents