Trial reportThe American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry2015
Adapting interpersonal psychotherapy for older adults at risk for suicide.
Trial report in The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Effectiveness of Psychotherapy on Suicidal Risk: A Systematic Review of Observational Studies.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Pooled it
- Problem-Solving Therapy Reduces Suicidal Ideation In Depressed Older Adults with Executive Dysfunction.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2016Trial
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- Subgroups of suicidal ideation and simulated intervention responses among left-behind children with depression risk: an Ising computational network model.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Advances in the assessment and study of suicide in late-life depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Psychotherapeutic Interventions for Depressive Symptoms in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Distress and Well-Being Among Psychiatric Patients in the Aftermath of the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Israel: A Longitudinal Study.International journal of public health · 2022Article
- Inpatient suicide in psychiatric settings: Evaluation of current prevention measures.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
- Suicide in late life: A viewpoint.Preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Why Are Suicide Rates Increasing in the United States? Towards a Multilevel Reimagination of Suicide Prevention.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2020Review
- Fatal and Non-fatal Self-Injury in the USA: Critical Review of Current Trends and Innovations in Prevention.Current psychiatry reports · 2019Review
- Self-harm in a primary care cohort of older people: incidence, clinical management, and risk of suicide and other causes of death.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2018Article
- Adapted psychotherapy for suicidal geriatric patients with depression.BMC psychiatry · 2018Article
- The development of the social health scale for the elderly.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2018Article
- Cognitive Reappraisal Intervention for Suicide Prevention (CRISP) for Middle-Aged and Older Adults Hospitalized for Suicidality.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2018Article
- Refining Suicide Prevention: a Narrative Review on Advances in Psychotherapeutic Tools.Current psychiatry reports · 2018Review
- Psychosocial Suicide Prevention Interventions in the Elderly: A Mini-Review of the Literature.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Review
- Advances in Psychotherapy for Depressed Older Adults.Current psychiatry reports · 2017Review
- Psychosocial Treatment Options for Major Depressive Disorder in Older Adults.Current treatment options in psychiatry · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo pilot a psychological intervention adapted for older adults at risk for suicide.
designA focused, uncontrolled, pre-to-post-treatment psychotherapy trial. All eligible participants were offered the study intervention.
settingOutpatient mental health care provided in the psychiatry department of an academic medical center in a mid-sized Canadian city.
participantsSeventeen English-speaking adults 60 years or older, at risk for suicide by virtue of current suicide ideation, death ideation, and/or recent self-injury.
interventionA 16-session course of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) adapted for older adults at risk for suicide who were receiving medication and/or other standard psychiatric treatment for underlying mood disorders. MEASUREMENTS: Participants completed a demographics form, screens for cognitive impairment and alcohol misuse, a semi-structured diagnostic interview, and measures of primary (suicide ideation and death ideation) and secondary study outcomes (depressive symptom severity, social adjustment and support, psychological well-being), and psychotherapy process measures.
resultsParticipants experienced significant reductions in suicide ideation, death ideation, and depressive symptom severity, and significant improvement in perceived meaning in life, social adjustment, perceived social support, and other psychological well-being variables.
conclusionsStudy participants experienced enhanced psychological well-being and reduced symptoms of depression and suicide ideation over the course of IPT adapted for older adults at risk for suicide. Larger, controlled trials are needed to further evaluate the impact of this novel intervention and to test methods for translating and integrating focused interventions into standard clinical care with at-risk older adults.
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