title: Promoting CARE: including parents in youth suicide prevention.
abstract: This study evaluated the effectiveness of augmenting a youth suicide-preventive intervention with a brief, home-based parent program. A total of 615 high school youth and their parents participated. Three suicide prevention protocols, a youth intervention, a parent intervention, and a combination of youth and parent intervention, were compared with an "intervention as usual" (IAU) group. All groups experienced a decline in risk factors and an increase in protective factors during the intervention period, and sustained these improvements over 15 months. Results reveal that the youth intervention and combined youth and parent intervention produced significantly greater reductions in suicide risk factors and increases in protective factors than IAU comparison group.
authors.affiliation: Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program, Psychosocial and Community Health Department, University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. chooven@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: Carole
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hooven
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.forename: Kenneth C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Pike
authors.forename: Jerald R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Herting
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012307:Risk Factors; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D000092864:Suicide Prevention