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Accessing the impact of youth suicide prevention program in small communities

Award Number: R03MH123905
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/01/2021
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2024

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Accessing the impact of youth suicide prevention program in small communities - Project Summary/Abstract Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States, particularly among youth aged 10–24 years. Youth in smaller, more rural communities, particularly American Indian/Native American youth, face heightened risk. Developing and delivering effective suicide prevention programs requires the means to rigorously evaluate their impact. Conducting impact evaluations of suicide prevention programs faces many challenges common to other fields, such as the difficulty in estimating the counterfactual when randomization is not feasible. These challenges are further compounded by the difficulty of obtaining reliable estimates of suicide rates in communities and segments of the population with heightened risk due to the small size of such communities. Building on small area estimation techniques, Bayesian disease-mapping models were developed to improve estimation of disease or health outcome rates in small areas by borrowing information from neighboring areas. Despite their potential, these models have not been applied to program impact evaluation. This study has three aims: (1) examine a method to assess suicide prevention impact in small areas with heightened suicide risk; (2) identify particular conditions under which our proposed method can outperform alternative methods for impact evaluation; and (3) extend earlier assessments of the impact of the Garrett Lee Smith (GLS) Memorial youth suicide prevention program administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration by focusing on small, high-risk communities, such as tribal communities, that were underrepresented in previous study samples. This study will use both simulated and real data to empirically assess the accuracy of the proposed approach vis-à-vis three alternative methods to estimate impact: synthetic control, elastic net, and matrix completion. The simulated data will allow us to gauge how different levels of spatial and temporal dependence, as well as variations in other relevant parameters, affect the relative performance of approaches. Finally, we will use a sample of micropolitan and noncore communities exposed to the GLS program between 2006 and 2018 to estimate the impact of the GLS program on both suicide and self-harm hospitalization rates among youth. In sum, by applying Bayesian spatiotemporal models to suicide prevention impact evaluation, we expect to both extend the utility of the approach beyond disease mapping and advance the ability to understand suicide prevention programming impact in some of the highest-risk populations.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2022	ICF MACRO INC	1902 RESTON METRO PLZ	RESTON	VA	20190	FAIRFAX	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	2	12/11/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $74,947 )
2022	2022	ICF MACRO, INC.	9300 LEE HWY	FAIRFAX	VA	22031	FAIRFAX	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	2	8/17/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$74,947
														Subtotal = $74,947

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $73,629 )
2021	2021	ICF MACRO, INC.	9300 LEE HWY	FAIRFAX	VA	22031	FAIRFAX	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	1	7/29/2021	NEW	$73,629
														Subtotal = $73,629

Grand Total All Awards = $148,576

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Accessing the impact of youth suicide prevention program in small communities

Award Number: R03MH123905

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/01/2021

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2024

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