Integrating the Youth Nominated Support Team (YST) With CBT for Black Youth With Acute Suicide Risk

NCT ID: NCT06941311

Last Updated: 2025-06-06

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

36 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-05-08

Study Completion Date

2026-05-31

Brief Summary

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The investigators are modifying and testing the preliminary effectiveness and implementation of the combination of two psychosocial interventions, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP) and the computer-assisted version of the Youth-Nominated Support Team (eYST). This registration will be for Aim 2 and a pilot randomized clinical trial for Aim 3 will be registered separately.

In this phase of the study, CBT-SP+eYST will be tested in an initial open trial (number of youth=6) to examine its feasibility and acceptability. Investigators will recruit Black adolescents that come to an urban emergency department (ED) for suicidal thoughts and/or behaviors to receive the intervention in an outpatient community mental health agency. The study focuses on the acute phase of CBT-SP, which is 12 sessions. Participants will nominate up to 4 caring adults in the participants lives to serve as support persons. These support persons will attend an education/orientation session to learn more about their role and how to support the youth.

Youth will be assessed at baseline, 6 weeks, and 14 weeks. Parents will be assessed at baseline and 14 weeks. Support persons will be assessed at baseline and 14 weeks. Fidelity assessments will be completed by clinicians after each CBT-SP session, after the YST psycho-ed session, and weekly to document contact with the support team.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Suicide Prevention

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

This study will recruit 6 youth and 6 parents/guardians, as well as up to 24 support individuals.
Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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CBT for Suicide Prevention and the Youth-Nominated Support Team

Participation will be 3 months.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Clinicians will provide this specialized evidence-based mental health care. The study focuses on the acute phase of CBT-SP, which is 12 sessions. CBT-SP's goals are to reduce suicide risk factors, enhance coping, and prevent future suicidal behavior. Identifying the emotional, cognitive, behavioral, or familial processes that precede a suicide crisis is a major focus, which yields an individualized treatment plan. Each session lasts one hour and can be completed either in person or via a secure telehealth platform. Most youths will attend sessions on a weekly basis and therapists typically like to be in contact with parents as well.

Youth-Nominated Support Team

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Youth will nominate up to 4 trusted adults. Following parental approval, Support Persons will attend an orientation session with their assigned intervention specialist, learn about the youth's difficulties, treatment plan, and receive ideas for supporting the youth. Support Persons will be asked to have contact with the youth each week for up to three months to offer emotional support, encourage participation in treatment, and support the youth's healthy behaviors. Support Persons will have weekly check-ins with their intervention specialist every week for the 3 months of the study. During these calls, Support Persons have an opportunity to discuss any questions or concerns they may have about the youth and how best to support them.

Interventions

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP)

Clinicians will provide this specialized evidence-based mental health care. The study focuses on the acute phase of CBT-SP, which is 12 sessions. CBT-SP's goals are to reduce suicide risk factors, enhance coping, and prevent future suicidal behavior. Identifying the emotional, cognitive, behavioral, or familial processes that precede a suicide crisis is a major focus, which yields an individualized treatment plan. Each session lasts one hour and can be completed either in person or via a secure telehealth platform. Most youths will attend sessions on a weekly basis and therapists typically like to be in contact with parents as well.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Youth-Nominated Support Team

Youth will nominate up to 4 trusted adults. Following parental approval, Support Persons will attend an orientation session with their assigned intervention specialist, learn about the youth's difficulties, treatment plan, and receive ideas for supporting the youth. Support Persons will be asked to have contact with the youth each week for up to three months to offer emotional support, encourage participation in treatment, and support the youth's healthy behaviors. Support Persons will have weekly check-ins with their intervention specialist every week for the 3 months of the study. During these calls, Support Persons have an opportunity to discuss any questions or concerns they may have about the youth and how best to support them.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients of any gender between the ages of 12 and 17 years
* Patients that are able to provide at least one verifiable contact for emergency or tracking purposes
* Eligible for care at MiSide
* Present to the ED with suicide risk (per protocol)
* Self-identify as Black (obtain from face sheet collected in triage)
* Willing and able to complete enrollment procedures
* Willing and able to provide signed and dated informed assent


* Adults 18 years old and older
* The parent or legal guardian of a youth participating in Aim 2
* Understand written and spoken English
* Willing and able to complete enrollment procedures
* Willing and able to provide signed and dated informed consent


* Adults 18 years and older
* Understand written and spoken English
* Approved to serve as a support person by the parent/legal guardian

Exclusion Criteria

* Unable to be consented in English
* Do not have a parent/legal guardian available to provide consent
* Are not able to provide informed assent or to participate in the assessment due to significant agitation, psychosis, cognitive impairment, learning disability, or medical trauma
* Actively engaged in specialty mental health treatment


\- Do not understand written and spoken English


* Do not understand written and spoken English
* Not approved to serve as a support person by the parent/guardian
Minimum Eligible Age

12 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

MiSide

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Children's Hospital of Michigan

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Michigan

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Cynthia Ewell Foster

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Cynthia Ewell Foster, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Michigan

Locations

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Children's Hospital of Michigan (CHM) Emergency Department

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

MiSide

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Site Status ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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Christina Magness

Role: CONTACT

734-252-6315

Facility Contacts

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Christina Magness, MSW

Role: primary

734-252-6315

Other Identifiers

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5R34MH131722-02

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

View Link

HUM00225071

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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