NCT03954457

Social Ecology and the Prevention of Suicide and Aggression in African American Youth

Completed NA Last updated 17 August 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing A-CWS in Suicide in 939 participants. Completed in 31 July 2020.

Timeline

5 February 2013

Primary endpoint
31 July 2020

31 July 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	DePaul University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	939
Start date	5 February 2013
Primary completion	31 July 2020
Estimated completion	31 July 2020
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• A-CWS
• Standard Care Control

Conditions studied

• Suicide — all drugs for Suicide →
• Aggression — all drugs for Aggression →

Sponsor

DePaul University

Who can join

12 and older, any sex, with Suicide or Aggression. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of a culturally-grounded, school-based suicide and aggression preventive intervention for African American adolescents (Adapted-Coping with Stress Course \[A-CWS\]). The A-CWS is a 15-session, cognitive-behavioral group intervention designed to develop and enhance African American youths' skills for coping with stress. Emphasis is given to the identification of stress unique to the day-to-day experiences of the youths and options for reducing stress that are culturally consistent. A total of four public high schools in a large Midwestern metropolitan area participated in this study that used a randomized-controlled design, with randomization occurring at the individual level. Participants were randomized either to the A-CWS intervention condition, or to a standard care control condition. This study had three hypotheses: (1) The intervention would raise adaptive coping, relative to the standard care control condition; (2) coping skills would explain the effects of the A-CWS intervention on problematic outcomes (i.e., suicidality, aggression); and (3) socio-ecological factors (i.e., neighborhood and family characteristics) would influence the effect of the A-CWS intervention on coping skills, and the effect of coping skills on problematic outcomes.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Reducing suicidal ideation in African American adolescents: A randomized controlled clinical trial.
   Robinson WL, Whipple CR, Keenan K, Flack CE, et al · · 2024 · cited 6× · PMID 37768628 · DOI 10.1037/ccp0000849
2. Prevention of self-harm and suicide in young people up to the age of 25 in education settings.
   Sharma V, Marshall D, Fortune S, Prescott AE, et al · · 2024 · cited 5× · PMID 39704320 · DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd013844.pub2