New hope for native youth: study tests best ways to prevent suicide

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Aim 1 Inclusion Criteria: * Native American youth ages 10 to 29 years old. * Reside on or near the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. * Parent/guardian consent for youth under 18 years old. * Suicide ideation, binge substance use with recent (i.e. within the last 3 months) suicide ideation, or suicide attempt in the past 30 days as identified and verified by the surveillance system or release from inpatient care related to suicide ideation or attempt within past 30 days. Terms and Definitions: Definitions for reportable behaviors are modeled on the Columbia Classification Algorithm for Suicide Assessment (C- CASA).\[11\] Suicide attempt: intentional self-injury with intent to die. (Aborted and interrupted suicide attempts are included as part of this category). Suicidal ideation: thoughts to take one's own life with or without preparatory action. Binge substance use with recent ideation, defined by Apache stakeholders, as consuming substances with the intention of modifying consciousness and resulting in being found unresponsive or requiring ED treatment and answering positively to a 1-item screening question on the assessment indicating suicide ideation within the past three months. Exclusion Criteria: • Factors identified at baseline that preclude full participation, including: unstable and severe medical, psychiatric or drug use problem that necessitates inpatient treatment; acute suicidal or homicidal ideation requiring immediate intervention; recent, severe stressful life events such as physical or sexual abuse, or violent crime victimization that requires specific and high intensity interventions or out of home placement. Participants must speak English and not be severely visually impaired. Foster children will not be included. Ambiguous cases will be reviewed by one of the co-PIs before being deemed eligible for recruitment. Aim 3 Inclusion Criteria: * Youth over the age of 16 or adults over the age of 18. * A person with an interest or concern related to youth suicide among AI populations. Exclusion Criteria: • Factors identified at baseline that preclude full participation including: being under the influence of a substance; active psychosis or mania; any other condition that makes an individual lack capacity to give consent. Foster children will not be included. Participants must speak English and not be severely visually impaired. Ambiguous cases will be reviewed by one of the co-PIs before being deemed eligible for recruitment.