SAFETY-Parent: Online Learning Module to Support Parents of Suicidal Youth

Summary

This project aims to adapt the parent component of Safe Alternatives for Teens and Youth (SAFETY) outpatient intervention to SAFETY-Parent (SAFETY-P), a self-paced interactive learning module for parents, to be implemented as an augmentation for youth being seen for suicidal ideation, suicidal behavior, or recent suicide attempts across multiple settings at Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH, Columbus, Ohio).

Conditions

• Suicide
• Suicide, Attempted
• Suicide and Self-harm
• Suicide Threat

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Safe Alternatives for Teens and Youth - Parent (SAFETY-P)

The parent component of SAFETY focuses on enhancing parents' skills in supporting youth safety and managing parental distress during a suicidal crisis, ideal content to adapt for web-based delivery for parents. Specifically, parent information includes psychoeducation about suicide risk and protective factors, lethal means restriction, development of a parent distress tolerance plan (i.e., Parent Safety Plan), parent self-care and sources of support, strengthening the youth/parent relationship, and focus on care linkage for the youth. The SAFETY-P asynchronous parent intervention module will include text, interactive handouts, vignettes, and short video examples. The SAFETY-P module will allow for parents to access information and skills training on their own time, with the opportunity and encouragement to ask informed questions of their child's clinician; this will provide clinicians the opportunity to utilize their check-ins with parents more effectively to address youth safety.

BEHAVIORAL

Treatment As Usual (TAU)

TAU will consist of treatment and case management as usual in the NCH Critical Assessment and Treatment (CATC) program. This may include individual and group therapy sessions for the youth, family therapy, medication management, and case management/discharge planning. Frequency of these services varies by availability and care linkage to ongoing outpatient care. We will track the number, type and length of all treatment and case management services provided as part of TAU in CATC to control for time spent in by parents and youth in TAU across study conditions. Additionally, the Child and Adolescent Services Assessment (CASA), a services use measure, will be utilized to capture any additional treatments and parents' involvement in those treatments.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

  collaborator OTHER

• Jennifer Hughes

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Jennifer L Hughes, PhD, MPH · Nationwide Children's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

10 Years

Max Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-06-10

Primary Completion

2026-12-31

Completion

2026-12-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations