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Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2016

The SOS Suicide Prevention Program: Further Evidence of Efficacy and Effectiveness.

Elizabeth A Schilling, Robert H Aseltine, Amy James

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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50citing papers in PubMed, 12 pooled it
10.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 213 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. The study of effect moderation in youth suicide-prevention studies.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2018
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  13. Addressing Suicide and Mental Health Through Universal Childhood Intervention: Results from The Seattle Social Development Project.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025
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  17. Contextualisation of the safeTALK™ Suicide Prevention Program: A Descriptive Qualitative Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Elizabeth A SchillingCenter for Public Health and Health Policy, UConn Health, 195 Farmington Ave., MC 6030, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA. eschilling@uchc.edu.
Robert H AseltineCenter for Public Health and Health Policy, UConn Health, 195 Farmington Ave., MC 6030, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA.
Amy JamesCenter for Public Health and Health Policy, UConn Health, 195 Farmington Ave., MC 6030, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA.
UConn Health · USConnecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study replicated and extended previous evaluations of the Signs of Suicide (SOS) prevention program in a high school population using a more rigorous pre-test post-test randomized control design than used in previous SOS evaluations in high schools (Aseltine and DeMartino 2004; Aseltine et al. 2007). SOS was presented to an ethnically diverse group of ninth grade students in technical high schools in Connecticut. After controlling for the pre-test reports of suicide behaviors, exposure to the SOS program was associated with significantly fewer self-reported suicide attempts in the 3 months following the program. Ninth grade students in the intervention group were approximately 64% less likely to report a suicide attempt in the past 3 months compared with students in the control group. Similarly, exposure to the SOS program resulted in greater knowledge of depression and suicide and more favorable attitudes toward (1) intervening with friends who may be exhibiting signs of suicidal intent and (2) getting help for themselves if they were depressed or suicidal. In addition, high-risk SOS participants, defined as those with a lifetime history of suicide attempt, were significantly less likely to report planning a suicide in the 3 months following the program compared to lower-risk participants. Differential attrition is the most serious limitation of the study; participants in the intervention group who reported a suicide attempt in the previous 3 months at baseline were more likely to be missing at post-test than their counterparts in the control group.

Indexed as

Program EvaluationSchoolsSuicide PreventionAdolescentConnecticutFemaleHealth PromotionHumansMaleAdolescentEvaluationPreventionSchoolsSuicide

Identifiers

PMID26314868
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