ArticleContemporary clinical trials2022
Caring Texts, a strength-based, suicide prevention trial in 5 native communities: Research design and methods.
Article in Contemporary clinical trials, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02825771 (Caring Contacts), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Caring Contacts: A Strength-based, Suicide Prevention Trial in 4 Native Communities
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.
- Expanding our understanding of digital mental health interventions for Indigenous youth: An updated systematic review.Journal of telemedicine and telecare · 2025Pooled it
- "Keep up the messages, sometimes it was a lifesaver": Effects of cultural adaptation on a suicide prevention clinical trial in American Indian/Alaska Native communities.Behaviour research and therapy · 2023Trial
- Preliminary Support for a Technology-Enhanced Suicide Prevention Intervention for College Students: Mixed Methods Preimplementation Study.JMIR human factors · 2026Article
- What Is Most Helpful? Integrating Gatekeeper and Peer Support Models of Suicide Prevention: Lived Experience Impacts Helping Perceptions.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
- Exploring the Impact of the Caring Contacts Intervention on the Stress and Distress of Veterans and Service Members: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Connected for life: How social connectedness can help prevent suicide in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.Archives of psychiatric nursing · 2024Article
- Digital Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults Experiencing Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors.Current treatment options in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Text2whaiora after a suicide attempt: Text message design alongside people with lived experience.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundDespite their intrinsic strengths and resilience, some American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities experience among the highest rates of suicide of any racial and ethnic group. Caring Contacts is one of the only interventions shown to reduce suicide in clinical trials, but it has not been tested in AI/AN settings.
objectiveTo compare the effectiveness of Enhanced Usual Care (control) to Enhanced Usual Care augmented with a culturally adapted version of Caring Contacts (intervention) for reducing suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and suicide-related hospitalizations.
methodsWe are implementing a single blind randomized controlled trial of Caring Contacts in five AI/AN communities across the country (South Dakota, Montana, Oklahoma, and Alaska). Eligible participants have to be (1) actively suicidal or have made a suicide attempt within the past year; (2) at least 18 years of age; (3) AI/AN; (4) able to speak and read English; (5) able to participate voluntarily; (6) willing to be contacted by text, email or postal mail; and (7) able to provide consent. Following consent and baseline assessment, participants are randomized to receive either Enhanced Usual Care alone, or Enhanced Usual Care with 12 months (25 messages) of culturally adapted Caring Contacts. Follow-up assessments are conducted at 12 and 18 months.
conclusionsIf effective, this study of Caring Contacts will inform programs to reduce suicide in the study communities as well as inform future research on Caring Contacts in other tribal settings. Modifications to continue the trial during the COVID-19 pandemic are discussed. CLINICAL TRIALS REGISTRATION: NCT02825771.
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