A Novel Peer-Delivered Recovery-Focused Suicide Prevention Intervention for Veterans With Serious Mental Illness
a study on Psychotic Disorders Bipolar Disorder Suicidal Ideation Attempted Suicide Suicide Mental Disorder
Summary
- Eligibility
- for people ages 18 years and up (full criteria)
- Location
- at San Diego, California
- Dates
- study startedcompletion around
- Principal Investigator
- by Samantha A Chalker, PhD
Description
Summary
Suicide is a major public health concern, particularly among Veterans with serious mental illness (SMI, i.e., psychotic disorders or bipolar disorders). Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) is a well-established evidence-based practice for those with SMI that centers on identifying warning signs of mental illness, developing wellness tools for functional independence, planning for day-to-day effective living within one's community, and building an action plan to create a valued life worth living. This proposed study will refine and pilot SUicide Prevention by Peers Offering Recovery Tactics (SUPPORT), a novel integrated recovery program that is an adaptation of peer-delivered WRAP for Veterans with SMI. In SUPPORT, a Peer Specialist leads a Veteran at increased risk for suicide through recovery planning that is tailored to the Veteran's suicidal experiences with cognitive learning strategies to enhance safety plan recall and improve functioning.
Details
This 5-year study aims to refine and pilot a peer-delivered intervention to improve functional and social recovery to decrease suicide risk; the study consists of two phases. Phase 1 employs a user-centered design approach to refine SUicide Prevention by Peers Offering Recovery Tactics (SUPPORT) aided by scientific and consumer advisory board stakeholders as well as training Peer Specialists to fidelity on pilot cases in an open trial. SUPPORT is a flexibly delivered intervention intended to augment safety planning by addressing functional and social goals personalized to each Veteran's recovery following a suicidal crisis while including cognitive learning strategies to enhance recall and salience of intervention material. Following adaptations from Phase 1, Phase 2 includes a pilot randomized controlled trial of SUPPORT compared to an enhanced standard care condition. Veteran participants in both phases will be quantitatively assessed at baseline, mid-treatment, post-treatment, and 3-months post-treatment (and qualitatively interviewed at post-treatment). Peer Specialists delivering the intervention will also be qualitatively interviewed post-treatment. The primary outcomes to be evaluated is improvement in personal recovery and reduction in suicidal ideation severity. Secondary outcomes concern changes in various domains of personal and social functioning.
Keywords
Psychotic Disorders, Bipolar Disorders, Suicidal Ideation, Suicide, Attempted, Bipolar Disorder, Suicide, Mental Disorders, Suicide Prevention, Attempted Suicide, SUicide Prevention by Peers Offering Recovery Tactics, SUPPORT
Eligibility
You can join if…
Open to people ages 18 years and up
Veteran Inclusion Criteria:
- Veterans who report present suicidal ideation (i.e., Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) > 2 ("Active thoughts of killing oneself") in past 1 month and/or a suicide attempt in the prior 3 months as identified by the C-SSRS
- Current SMI diagnosis (i.e., schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, mood disorders with psychotic features, bipolar disorders)
- Capable of informed consent via the University of California San Diego Brief Assessment of Capacity to Consent (UBACC)
Peer Specialist Inclusion Criteria:
- Certified Peer Specialist employed at VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS) in the Mental Health Care Line (individuals must demonstrate competency in basic suicide screening and referral procedures to be certified)
- 2-3 years of experience post certification as a Certified Peer Specialist
- Interest in being trained in SUPPORT
- Provide verbal or written consent for the research staff to discuss ability to participate in the study with the Peer Specialist's direct clinical supervisor
- Direct clinical supervisor agreement to allow the Peer Specialist to participate. This includes the Peer Specialist's direct clinical supervisor agreement to allow the Peer Specialist time as part of their current scope of practice to 1) participate in the full day (8-hour) SUPPORT training, 2) participate in weekly 1-hour group supervision for the duration of the Peer Specialist's time in the study, and 3) take on a case load of at least one SUPPORT Veteran at a given time.
You CAN'T join if...
Veteran Exclusion Criteria:
- Cannot complete the assessment battery
- Current intoxication requiring immediate detoxification or outpatient plan directed specifically to residential substance use disorder (not mental health) services
- Imminent psychiatric hospitalization
Location
- VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA
accepting new patients
San Diego California 92161-0002 United States
Lead Scientist at UCSD
Details
- Status
- accepting new patients
- Start Date
- Completion Date
- (estimated)
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
- ID
- NCT05537376
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Participants
- Expecting 69 study participants
- Last Updated
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