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Adapting Youth Nominated Support Team (YST) to Prevent Suicide

NCT07559955 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2026-04-30

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Summary

The goal of this study is to conduct a pilot test of a mental health support program called the Youth-Nominated Support Team - Probation (YST-P) for young people ages 12-17 on probation, experiencing suicidal ideation and behaviors (SIB). Young people on probation experience SIB at higher rates than youth in the general population, but often do not receive the mental health care they need due to multi-level barriers. YST-P is adapted from an existing evidence-based, social support intervention, Youth-Nominated Support Team (YST), which is a psychoeducational, social support intervention originally created as an adjunctive to standard behavioral health (BH) treatment for youth with suicide risk following psychiatric hospitalization. YST-P is an adaptation of YST designed to meet the unique needs of youth on probation, addressing their SIB and increasing their uptake of treatment, by leveraging their existing social networks. YST-P is designed as an early intervention program to prevent escalation of SIB and increase probation youths' treatment uptake, bridging them to care. The study entails a single-arm pilot to examine reductions in SIB (within-subject comparison), and increased treatment uptake (comparing YST-P participants to a propensity-matched, historical control). This study will additionally explore theorized mechanisms of intervention action as well as implementation outcomes and barriers/facilitators to YST-P. The goal is for results from this study to inform a larger, fully powered effectiveness trial, as well as future studies leveraging youths' existing social support networks to prevent SIB and bridge them to care.

Conditions

  • Suicidal Ideation and Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Youth-Nominated Support Team for Probation

YST-P is a social support intervention to leverage youths' existing relationships as an approach to decrease SIB and address multilevel barriers to care for youth on probation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Corianna E Sichel, PhD · Columbia University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-09-01
Primary Completion
2028-07-31
Completion
2028-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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