Youth Empowerment and Safety Intervention for Suicide and Self-Injurious Behavior
This study is testing a program called the Youth Empowerment and Safety (YES) Intervention for young people aged 12-17 who identify as sexual or gender minorities (SGM) and have experienced self-injurious thoughts or behaviors (SITB). You might be eligible if you are involved with the juvenile justice, child welfare, or community mental health systems. The YES Intervention combines usual behavioral health services with support from Peer Support Specialists (PSS), who are people with similar life experiences. Researchers want to see if this program is practical, acceptable to participants, and helps improve recovery and reduce self-injurious thoughts and behaviors. They will measure these changes at the start, and then 3 and 6 months after the intervention.
- Study design
- This interventional study plans to enroll 60 participants. It compares standard behavioral health services to those services combined with peer support.
- What's involved
- You would receive either standard behavioral health services or those services plus peer support for 8-12 weeks. You would also have assessments at the beginning, and then 3 and 6 months after the treatment ends.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Participants will be followed for 6 months after the intervention ends.
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Youth Empowerment and Safety Intervention
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Dana M. Prince, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Case Western Reserve University
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What this trial measures
- Youth-level changes in RecoveryBaseline, Post-Intervention 3 Month, and Post Intervention 6 Month
The researchers will compare the change in treatment engagement as quantified by total score on two separate subscales of the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (the QPR). The QPR is a 22-item measure developed from service users' accounts of recovery in collaboration with local service users. Each item is scored using a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 0 (disagree strongly) to 4 (agree strongly). There are two subscales: 1) intrapersonal tasks involved in recovery (17 items, range 0-68) and 2) interpersonal factors that facilitate recovery (5 items, range 0-20) with higher scores indicating increased recovery on both subscales.
- Youth Level Changes in Self-injurious thoughts and behaviorsFrom enrollment (baseline), to 3- and 6 months follow ups post treatment at the end of 8-12 weeks.
The researchers will compare changes in suicidal ideation, planning, attempt and non-suicidal self-harm in a group of pre-intervention (nonrandomized) youth to post-intervention (nonrandomized youth) using the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), a widely used and well-validated measure of suicidal ideation, planning, attempt, and non-suicidal self-harm.