N/A N=37 Treatment

Suicide Safety Planning Group Treatment: "Project Life Force"

Suicide

Bottom Line

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Enrolled (actual)

Serious AEs

27.0%

Results posted

Oct 2019

Primary outcome: Primary: Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSS) — 17.68; 11.6; 10.71 score on a scale

Study Design & Population

Study type: Interventional
Phase: N/A
Interventions: Project Life Force Group Treatment (Behavioral)
Age: Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
Sex: All
Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development
Primary completion: Mar 2018

Outcome Measures

Outcome	Result	p-value
PRIMARY Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSS)	17.68; 11.6; 10.71	—
PRIMARY Columbia Suicide Rating Scale (C-SSRS)	3.93; 2.25; 2.13	—
PRIMARY Beck Depression Inventory-II	33.51; 23; 18.13	—
PRIMARY Beck Hopelessness Scale	11.69; 9.52; 7.25	—

Summary

For suicidal individuals, minimizing future risk and fostering recovery are critical public health concerns, especially among Veterans, as very few effective interventions exist. This proposal tests a novel group psychotherapy treatment that combines emotion regulation skill based, and psychoeducational approaches, with suicide safety planning development and implementation. "Project Life Force" (PLF), a novel suicide safety planning group intervention has been designed to fill this critical gap and provide a mechanism to develop and enhance suicide safety planning over time. PLF, a 12-session, group psychotherapy intervention, combines Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) skill based and psychoeducational approaches, to enhance suicide safety planning development and implementation. Veterans revise their plans over several weeks while learning distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and friendship building/interpersonal skills to incorporate into their safety plans and also receive lessons on gun safety and minimizing access to lethal means. Sessions are augmented with 1) training in the use of a suicide safety planning mobile App to promote accessibility and maximize implementation, and 2) didactic information to bolster recovery, including fostering improved connection with the treatment team, and Veteran's family.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Veterans > 18
Able to give consent
Recent Completion of a VA suicide safety plan

Exclusion Criteria

IQ<80
Does not speak English
Inability to tolerate group therapy format
There is no exclusion based on medical or psychiatric treatment status.
There are no special restrictions with regard to gender, ethnic status or race

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Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02525575). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.