Preventing Suicide in African American Adolescents

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Suicide

In brief

The overarching aim of the Success Over Stress Prevention Project is to reduce African American youth suicide. This study examines the impact of a 15-session, group-delivered, culturally-grounded, cognitive-behavioral intervention (i.e., PI Robinson's Adapted-Coping with Stress Course \[A-CWS\]), on the outcomes of interest, when it is delivered by social workers who are indigenous to the school system. The main objectives of this project are to (a) determine whether the intervention is effective when facilitated by social workers who are indigenous to the school system and (b) enhance resilience, increase adaptive coping strategies, and reduce both intrapersonal and interpersonal violence among youth receiving the prevention intervention. It is expected that increases in adaptive coping will lead to an increased ability for youth to manage stressors, thereby decreasing the incidence of suicide and violence among the youth. In addition, it is expected that evidence of the intervention's effectiveness, when facilitated by social workers who are indigenous to the school system, will lead to greater dissemination and sustainability of the intervention, thus, providing access to effective intervention resources to greater numbers of African American youth.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04253002

Run by

DePaul University

People needed

512

Starts

2022-02-01

Expected to finish

2026-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2024-06-05

Who can join

Age: 12 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Students: Enrolled 9th grade student at time of initial enrollment at participating high school
• Parents/guardians: Child enrolled in study
• Teachers: Student enrolled in study

You may not qualify if…

• Not a 9th grade student at time of initial enrollment
• No parent/legal guardian permission
• For parents and teachers: no students enrolled in study

Where it is running

• Richard T. Crane High School — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• DePaul University — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Dunbar Vocational Career Academy — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Orr Academy High School — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Wendell Phillips Academy High School — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Proviso East High School — Maywood, Illinois, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.