Cited by 73Suicide and Self-Harm StudiesPsychiatric care and mental health servicesPersonality Disorders and Psychopathology

Teen Options for Change: An Intervention for Young Emergency Patients Who Screen Positive for Suicide Risk

Open access
King, Cheryl A., Gipson, Polly Y., Horwitz, Adam G., Opperman, Kiel J.·2015·Psychiatric Services

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Previous research has documented the feasibility of screening in emergency departments for adolescent suicide risk. This randomized trial examined the effectiveness of Teen Options for Change (TOC), an intervention for adolescents seeking general medical emergency services who screen positive for suicide risk. METHODS: Participants were 49 youths, ages 14 to 19, seeking services for nonpsychiatric emergencies. They screened positive for suicide risk because of recent suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, or depression plus substance abuse. Youths were randomly assigned to the TOC intervention or to enhanced treatment as usual. Depression, hopelessness, and suicidal ideation were assessed at baseline and two months later. RESULTS: Adolescents assigned to TOC showed greater reductions in depression than adolescents assigned to the comparison group (Cohen's d=1.07, a large effect size). Hopelessness, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse outcomes trended positively (nonsignificantly), with small to moderate effect sizes. CONCLUSIONS: TOC may be a promising, brief intervention for adolescents seeking emergency services and at risk of suicide.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1176/appi.ps.201300347

Cites

11 of 11 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. [8]Reynolds WM Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale-2nd Edition: Short Form (RADS-2:SF) 2008 Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc. Lutz, FL

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
King, C. A., Gipson, P. Y., Horwitz, A. G., & Opperman, K. J.
Affiliations
University of Michigan (US)
Venue
Psychiatric Services
Published
2015-01-01
Volume
66
Issue
1
Pages
97-100
ISSN
  • 0022-1597 (ISSN-L)
  • 1075-2730
  • 1557-9700
OpenAlex
W2116617026
Cited by
73
References
11
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1
FWCI
5.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Psychiatric Services (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (K24MH077705, R34MH079123)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
Keywords
adolescent suicide risk, suicide prevention interventions, emergency department screening, suicidal ideation, depression, hopelessness, substance abuse, brief intervention, adolescents
MeSH terms
Suicide Prevention, Adolescent, Adult, Depression, Emergency Service, Hospital, Feasibility Studies, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Pilot Projects, Psychotherapy, Risk, Suicide, Attempted, Treatment Outcome, Substance-Related Disorders, Young Adult, Suicidal Ideation

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review