The impact of curriculum-based suicide prevention programs for teenagers: an 18-month follow-up.
In a long-term follow-up of a study designed to assess the impact of school-based suicide prevention curricula on high school students, a group of 174 students from two high schools who were exposed to a prevention program were compared with a group of 207 control students from two additional high schools who were not exposed to the curriculum. A questionnaire, designed to measure the effects of the prevention program on actual help-seeking behaviors and suicide morbidity during the follow-up period, was administered 18 months after delivery of the program. The study failed to find convincing evidence of any program effect.
Department of Child Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York 10032.
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D000293:Adolescent; D003479:Curriculum; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012944:Social Support; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology; D000092864:Suicide Prevention