ArticleSuicide & life-threatening behavior2016
Effect of Problem-Solving Therapy on Depressed Low-Income Homebound Older Adults' Death/Suicidal Ideation and Hopelessness.
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- TelehealthPsychological medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of an active arcade gaming intervention on psychosocial outcomes for homebound older adults: a pilot randomised controlled trial.BMC geriatrics · 2026Trial
- Beyond maintaining safety: Examining the benefit of emotion-centered problem solving therapy added to safety planning for reducing late life suicide risk.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Trial
- Ethical and methodological challenges slowing progress in primary care-based suicide prevention: Illustrations from a randomized controlled trial and guidance for future research.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Trial
- Problem-solving therapy for suicide prevention outcomes in the VA's suicide prevention 2.0 clinical telehealth program.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Uses of Virtual Care in Primary Care: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Implementation of a fully virtual enterprise-wide clinical evidence-based suicide prevention program in the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs: the suicide prevention 2.0 clinical telehealth initiative.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The impact of minimum wage increase on suicidal ideation in South Korea: a difference-in-differences analysis using nationally representative panel data.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Brief psychological intervention for suicide prevention based on problem-solving applied in different formats to people over 50 years old: protocol for a randomized controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- User Engagement in an Online Digital Health Intervention to Promote Problem Solving.Interacting with computers · 2024Article
- The effects of modified problem-solving therapy on depression, coping, and self-efficacy in elderly nursing home residents.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- How the helping process unfolds for clients in suicidal crises: Linking helping-style trajectories with outcomes in online crisis chats.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2021Article
- Problem-Solving Therapy Effects on Suicidal Ideation: The Role of Reduction in Functional Disability.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2021Article
- 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
- Cognitive, Emotional, Temperament, and Personality Trait Correlates of Suicidal Behavior.Current psychiatry reports · 2016Review
- Depression in older women who died by suicide: associations with other suicide contributors and suicide methods.Journal of women & agingArticle
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Abstract
Previous study findings of psychotherapy's effect on suicide prevention have been inconsistent. This study reports the results of secondary analyses of outcome data from a short-term depression treatment on reducing death/suicidal ideation among 158 low-income homebound adults aged 50+. The treatment, in-person or telehealth problem-solving therapy (PST), compared with telephone support call, has been found effective in reducing depressive symptoms and disability among participants. Compared with support call participants, tele-PST participants, but not in-person PST participants, exhibited lower ideation ratings across the follow-up period. Effect sizes at 36 weeks were 0.31 for tele-PST and 0.17 for in-person PST. Hopelessness mediated the effect of tele-PST but not in-person PST; however, in-person PST also alleviated hopelessness, which led to lower ideation. Clinical implications of the findings are discussed.
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