Study Protocol: A randomized controlled trial of suicide risk reduction in the year following jail release (the SPIRIT Trial).

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This article describes the protocol for a randomized effectiveness and cost-effectiveness trial of Stanley and Brown's Safety Planning Intervention (SPI) during pretrial jail detention to reduce post-release suicide events (suicide attempts, suicide behaviors, and suicide-related hospitalizations).

Background

With 10 million admissions per year and short stays (often days), U.S. jails touch many individuals at risk for suicide, providing an important opportunity for suicide prevention that is currently being missed. This study (N = 800) is the first randomized evaluation of an intervention to reduce suicide risk in the vulnerable year after jail release. Given that roughly 10% of all suicides in the U.S. with known circumstances occur in the context of a criminal leg

SUBMITTER: Johnson JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9236190 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature