Selective personality-targeted prevention of suicidal ideation in young adolescents: post hoc analysis of data collected in a cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the efficacy of a selective, personality-targeted intervention for reducing suicidal ideation in adolescents.

Design

Post hoc analysis of survey data collected in the Climate and Preventure (CAP) study, a cluster randomised controlled trial that compared strategies for reducing alcohol misuse by adolescents, 2012-2015.

Setting, participants

Year 8 students at 16 New South Wales non-government schools and one Victorian non-government school.

Intervention

Preventure, a selective, personality-targeted intervention designed to help adolescents with personality risk factors for alcohol misuse, comprising two 90-minute sessions, one week apart. For our post hoc analysis, we combined data from the two CAP trial groups in which Preventure was offere

SUBMITTER: Grummitt LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9542662 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature