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Publication Date: 2010-Nov
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Long-Term Outcomes for the Promoting CARE Suicide Prevention Program
Hooven, Carole; Herting, Jerald R.; Snedker, Karen A.
American Journal of Health Behavior, v34 n6 p721-736 Nov 2010
Objectives: To provide a long-term look at suicide risk from adolescence to young adulthood for former participants in Promoting CARE, an indicated suicide prevention program. Methods: Five hundred ninety-three suicide-vulnerable high school youth were involved in a long-term follow-up study. Latent class growth models identify patterns of change in suicide risk over this period. Results: Three distinct trajectories are determined, all showing a maintenance of decreased suicide risk from postintervention in adolescence into young adulthood for direct suicide-risk behaviors, depression and anger. Intervention conditions as well as key risk/protective factors are identified that predict to the long-term trajectories. Conclusion: Early intervention is successful in promoting and maintaining lower-risk status from adolescence to young adulthood, with the caveat that some high-risk behaviors may indicate a need for additional intervention to establish earlier effects.
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Prevention, Suicide, Followup Studies, Depression (Psychology), Health Behavior, Adolescents, Young Adults, High School Students, Risk, Outcomes of Treatment, Mental Health, Program Effectiveness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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