Home > Effectiveness of a suicide prevention module for adults in substance use disorder treatment: a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized clinical trial.

Ries, Richard K and Livengood, Adam L and Huh, David and Kerbrat, Amanda H and Fruhbauerova, Martina and Turner, Brianna and Comtois, Katherine Anne (2022) Effectiveness of a suicide prevention module for adults in substance use disorder treatment: a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized clinical trial. JAMA Network Open, 5, (4), e222945. 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.2945.

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Question: Does a secondary prevention module in community addiction treatment improve patients’ suicide knowledge, attitudes, and help-seeking compared with usual care?

Findings: In this stepped-wedge cluster-randomized clinical trial including 906 participants at 15 treatment sites, the Preventing Addiction Related Suicide (PARS) prevention module produced consistently greater improvements compared with usual care in suicide knowledge and a greater reduction in maladaptive attitudes about suicide across all time points, and greater improvement in help-seeking by 6 months.

Meaning: These findings suggest that PARS was effective in improving suicide prevention outcomes and has the potential for wide dissemination and implementation.9.


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