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Testing an Intergenerational Model of Suicide Risk in Mother-child Dyads

NCT06463054 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2025-05-15

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Summary

The investigators are interested in learning more about how the role of mothers' emotions has on the transmission of suicide risk to children. Eligible participants will be invited to participate in a baseline assessment, and 4 follow-up assessments in the next year. This research study is a randomized control trial. Participants that choose to enroll are randomly assigned, that is by chance (like by flipping a coin) to receive DBT Skills Training or treatment as usual (TAU). Participants may also be selected for DBT skills training, it which would occur once a week for 6 months.

Conditions

  • Emotion Regulation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Group Training

The investigators will employ Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training in order to experimentally manipulate maternal emotion dysregulation, the targeted mechanism.

BEHAVIORAL

Safety Planning Intervention

Safety Planning Intervention (SPI) or SPI only for 6 months, such that all mothers with history of suicidal behavior + ER difficulties will receive SPI.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Oregon

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Stephanie D Step, PhD · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-04-01
Primary Completion
2028-03-31
Completion
2028-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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