Long-term outcomes for the promoting CARE suicide prevention program.
OBJECTIVE
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.


CONCLUSIONS
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.
Hooven
Carole
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Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Programs, Department of Psychosocial and Community Health, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-4926, USA. chooven@u.washington.edu
Herting
Jerald R
JR
Snedker
Karen A
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D000293:Adolescent; D000786:Anger; D003863:Depression / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008605:Mental Health Services; D015233:Models, Statistical; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012307:Risk Factors; D000092864:Suicide Prevention