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

增强青少年联系的链接（LETs CONNECT）

• 批准号: 8069039
• 负责人: Cheryl A. King
• 金额: $ 37.08万
• 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/8069039
• 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）：自杀行为在美国青少年中非常普遍，并且与高发病率相关。此外，自杀行为是自杀的主要危险因素，而自杀是该年龄段的第三大死因。尽管自杀行为和自杀对公共卫生具有重要意义，但针对青少年制定的基于证据的预防策略却很少，专注于预防自杀行为最初发生的策略就更少了。为了响应 RFA-CE-10-006“通过增强联系来预防自杀行为”，本申请建议在一项随机对照预防试验中严格评估增强青少年联系链接 (LET's CONNECT) 的有效性。 LET's CONNECT 专为因人际联系较低、近期有欺凌他人史和/或近期被欺凌史而导致自杀行为高风险的青少年而设计。它让青少年与青少年提名的“自然”导师和社区导师合作，积极促进和支持青少年参与社区组织和活动。具体目标是确定处于 LET's CONNECT 条件的青少年相对于处于对照条件的青少年（仅社区资源信息）是否：(1) 报告个人联系和社区联系有更大的改善，以及 (2) 不太可能自杀行为。 公共卫生相关性：尽管青少年自杀行为的发生率很高，而且自杀悲剧也很频繁，但很少有人制定出基于证据的自杀预防策略。该应用程序建议严格评估增强青少年连通性链接（LET's CONNECT）的有效性。该策略旨在增强家庭和社区的联系，并防止因受害史或人际暴力经历而面临较高风险的青少年出现自杀行为。