Links to Enhancing Teens' Connectedness (LET's CONNECT)

增强青少年联系的链接（LETs CONNECT）

• 批准号: 8143516
• 负责人: Cheryl A. King
• 金额: $ 39.81万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-30 至 2015-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8143516
• 关键词: Links; Enhancing; Teens; Connectedness; LET

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Suicidal behavior is highly prevalent among adolescents in the United States and associated with substantial morbidity. Moreover, suicidal behavior is a primary risk factor for suicide, which is the third leading cause of death for this age group. Despite the public health significance of suicidal behavior and suicide, few evidence-based prevention strategies have been developed for adolescents and even fewer have focused on preventing the initial occurrence of suicidal behavior. In response to RFA- CE-10-006 "Prevention of Suicidal Behavior through the Enhancement of Connectedness," this application proposes to rigorously assess the effectiveness of Links to Enhancing Teens' Connectedness (LET's CONNECT) in a randomized controlled prevention trial. LET's CONNECT was designed for adolescents who are at elevated risk for suicidal behavior due to low interpersonal connectedness, a recent history of bullying others, and/or a recent history of being bullied. It teams the adolescent with an adolescent-nominated "natural" mentor and a community mentor to actively facilitate and support the adolescent's engagement with community organizations and activities. Specific aims are to determine if adolescents in the LET's CONNECT condition relative to adolescents in the control condition (community resource information only): (1) report greater improvement in individual connectedness and community connectedness, and (2) are less likely to engage in suicidal behavior. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Despite the high prevalence of suicidal behavior among adolescents and the too frequent tragedy of suicide, few evidence-based suicide prevention strategies have been developed. This application proposes to rigorously assess the effectiveness of the Links to Enhancing Teens' Connectedness (LET's CONNECT). This strategy was designed to enhance family and community connectedness and to prevent the onset of suicidal behavior in adolescents who are at elevated risk due to a history of victimization or exposure to interpersonal violence.

描述（由申请人提供）：自杀行为在美国的青少年中非常普遍，并且与大量发病有关。此外，自杀行为是自杀的主要危险因素，这是该年龄段的第三大死亡原因。尽管自杀行为和自杀的公共健康意义，但很少有针对青少年的基于证据的预防策略，甚至更少的专注于防止最初发生自杀行为。为了响应RFA-CE-10-006“通过增强连接性通过增强自杀行为的预防”，本申请建议在一项随机控制的预防试验中严格评估增强青少年连接性（让我们连接）的链接的有效性。让我们的连接是为由于人际交往性低，欺负他人的近期历史和/或最近被欺负的历史而设计的，这些青少年的自杀行为风险较高。它将青少年与青少年提名的“自然”导师和社区导师团结在一起，以积极促进和支持青少年与社区组织和活动的互动。具体目的是确定与控制条件中的青少年相对于青少年（仅社区资源信息）中的“我们连接条件”中的青少年（1）报告个人连接性和社区联系的改善以及（2）从事自杀行为的可能性较小。 公共卫生相关性：尽管青少年自杀行为的流行率很高，并且自杀过于频繁，但很少有基于证据的自杀策略。该应用程序建议严格评估与增强青少年联系的链接的有效性（让我们连接）。该策略旨在增强家庭和社区的联系，并防止由于受害或暴露于人际暴力的历史而处于风险较高的青少年中自杀行为的发作。