Suicide Prevention Public Service Announcements (PSAs): A Randomized Controlled Trial in Young Adults

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12619000814178

Acronym

SuiPSA

Enrollment

120

Registered

2019-06-04

Start date

2019-06-11

Completion date

2019-11-30

Last updated

2019-07-15

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

Youth suicide is a major public health problem in Australia and worldwide. This study aims to build the evidence base for an effective public education campaign for young people. In particular we are testing to see if a 30 second ad can lead to reaching out and helping a peer at risk of suicide.120 young people will be recruited from the general population randomly allocated to view one of two PSA. The intervention PSA is about helping someone at risk of suicide and the control PSA is about the impact of sugary drinks. Participants will answer questions pre-viewing, post-viewing and four weeks later to permit an examination of several positive and negative outcomes.

Interventions

We will conduct a randomized A total of 120 18-24 year olds will be recruited from the community and randomly allocated to view (a) suicide prevention Public Service Announcement or (b) a control PSA on an unrelated health issue. The suicide prevention PSA is a 30 second ad. The ad has been specifically designed for the project by young people. It features young people and it is about reaching to help a friend or peer who might be experiencing suicidal thought. It has never been viewed before. Young people will not be able to proceed to completing the questionnaires if the video is not watched twice. This is monitored via the electronic data base . At Time 1 (pre-viewing), participant will complete a series of outcome measures, At Time 2 (immediately post-viewing), participants will complete a questionnaire about the PSA itself and a measure of distress. At Time 3 (four weeks post-viewing), participants will re complete previously completed outcome measures.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Primary purpose

Prevention

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 24 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

We will recruit 120 young people (aged 18-24) english speaking

Exclusion criteria

If participants score above 31 on the Adult Suicidal Ideation questionnaire they will be excluded from further participantion in the study

Outcome results