The Senior Connection: Design and rationale of a randomized trial of peer companionship to reduce suicide risk in later life✰,✰✰

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• Alternative Title:
  Contemp Clin Trials
• Personal Author:
  Van Orden, Kimberly A. ; Stone, Deborah M. ; Rowe, Jody ; McIntosh, Wendy L. ; Podgorski, Carol ; Conwell, Yeates
• Description:
  There is a pressing public health need to find interventions that reduce suicide risk in later life. Psychiatric and physical illness, functional decline, and social factors place seniors at risk for suicide. Reflecting this body of evidence, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified the promotion and strengthening of social connectedness, between and within the individual, family, community, and broader societal levels, as a key strategy for suicide prevention. The Senior Connection, a randomized trial of peer companionship for older adults, is described here, with an emphasis on the most novel features of the study design-grounding in a psychological theory of suicide and intervening at an early stage in the suicide risk trajectory by linking primary care patients with the Aging Services Provider Network.
• Subjects:
  Aged Friends Humans Interpersonal Relations Peer Group Risk Factors Social Support Suicide Prevention
• Keywords:
  Elderly Geriatrics Prevention Social Connectedness Suicide
• Source:
  Contemp Clin Trials. 2013; 35(1):117-126
• Pubmed ID:
  23506973
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3684619
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  RR024160/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; 1U01CE001942-01/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R24MH07610/MH/NIMH NIH HHSUnited States/ ; 2KL2RR024136-06/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 RR024160/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/ ; T32 MH020061/MH/NIMH NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 CE001942/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R24 MH071604/MH/NIMH NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K23 MH096936/MH/NIMH NIH HHSUnited States/ ; T32MH20061/MH/NIMH NIH HHSUnited States/ ; KL2 RR024136/RR/NCRR NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  35
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d8dc7583901ba23d1fb3bc65f38f10b1967a5cb11ebb64d4685a50d25533f02a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/29676/cdc_29676_DS1.pdf
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