Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2010
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Hooven, Carole et al. “Long-term outcomes for the promoting CARE suicide prevention program.” American journal of health behavior vol. 34,6 (2010): 721-36. https://doi.org/10.5993/ajhb.34.6.8
Peer Reviewed
1
Copyright
Ingenta
Comments
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in American Journal of Health Behavior, volume 34, issue 6, in 2010 following peer review. This article may not exactly replicate the final published version. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at https://doi.org/10.5993/ajhb.34.6.8.