Safety Planning and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Suicide Prevention in Mozambique
Safety Planning and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Suicide Prevention in Mozambique: A Hybrid Effectiveness/Implementation Cluster Randomized Trial
University of Washington
2,100 participants
Sep 1, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This implementation research project aims to test the effectiveness and implementation outcomes of suicide safety planning along and a transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral intervention for suicide prevention on decreasing suicidal behaviors in secondary school students in Mozambique. This study will also result in hypothesized mechanisms of intervention effects, costs and cost-effectiveness.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria5
- Youth enrolled in a secondary school in Sofala Province that is located within 30 minutes of a health facility that hosts both an urgent care and mental health department.
- Youth enrolled in 9th and/or 10th and/or 11th grade.
- Legal guardian has provided consent to participate if under 18 or if youth is age 18 or older and has provided consent to participate.
- Youth has assented to participation.
- \. Youth expresses active suicidal ideation on the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS).
Exclusion Criteria4
- Youth and/or guardian has not provided consent to participate, or responsible party is unable to provide informed consent.
- Youth is not enrolled in a participating secondary school.
- Youth declines to assent.
- Youth is a ward of the State or any other agency, institution, or entity.
Interventions
All behavioral interventions will be provided by a trained nonspecialist healthcare worker, descriptions of each intervention can be found under treatment arm/group descriptions.
All behavioral interventions will be provided by a trained nonspecialist healthcare worker, descriptions of each intervention can be found under treatment arm/group descriptions.
All behavioral interventions will be provided by a trained nonspecialist healthcare worker, descriptions of each intervention can be found under treatment arm/group descriptions.
Locations(7)
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NCT06465381