Recruiting

Suicide Prevention Program

Sponsor:

UCLA

Code:

NCT07756567

Conditions

Clinical High Risk for Psychosis (CHR)

Suicidal Ideation

Psychosis

Suicidal Behavior

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 12 - 30

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Suicide Prevention Intervention

Standard Care (in control arm)

Study Details

Brief summary:

Young people at clinical high risk for psychosis are more likely to experience suicide thoughts than the general population, but there are few suicide prevention programs designed specifically for them. This study will develop and evaluate a recovery-oriented suicide prevention group program for young people at clinical high risk for psychosis.

The program will be led by a clinician and a peer with lived experience. It will help participants identify reasons for living, build hope, set meaningful recovery goals, strengthen social connections, and learn strategies to better remember and use suicide prevention strategies developed during the program. Caregivers will also be invited to participate in a session to learn ways to support their young person.

The study will first gather feedback from participants, caregivers, clinicians, and community advisors to refine the program. Researchers will then compare the program plus standard care with standard care alone to determine whether it improves personal recovery and increases participants' ability to remember and use suicide prevention strategies. Researchers will also collect feedback from participants and program staff to better understand how the program can be integrated into early psychosis services.

Conditions

Clinical High Risk for Psychosis (CHR)

Suicidal Ideation

Psychosis

Suicidal Behavior

Study ID

NCT07756567

Start date

Oct, 2026

Status verified date

Oct, 2026

Completion date

Dec, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 12 - 30

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Young Person Inclusion Criteria:

  • symptoms of clinical high risk for psychosis in the last two years
  • lifetime active suicide ideation and/or lifetime suicide behavior
  • has a caregiver willing to participate

Young Person Exclusion Criterion:

  • not able to read and write in English

Caregiver Inclusion Criteria:

  • has a familial relationship with the young person participant
  • has at least 4 hours of face-to-face contact with the patient participant every week, even if they do not live together

Caregiver Exclusion Criteria: None

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Administrator/Clinician Inclusion Criteria:

  • employed at the University of California, San Diego or University of California, Los Angeles early psychosis program

Administrator/Clinician Exclusion Criteria: None

Study Design

Enrollment

108 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Suicide Prevention Intervention

The program will be led by a clinician and a peer with lived experience. It will help participants identify reasons for living, build hope, set meaningful recovery goals, strengthen social connections, and learn strategies to better remember and use the suicide prevention strategies developed during the program. Caregivers will also be invited to participate in a session to learn ways to support their young person and promote recovery and stability. This program will be in addition to standard coordinated speciality care for early psychosis.

other: Standard care

Standard care

Interventions

Suicide Prevention Intervention

The program will be led by a clinician and a peer specialist with lived experience. It will help participants identify reasons for living, build hope, set meaningful recovery goals, strengthen social connections, and learn strategies to better remember and use the suicide prevention strategies developed during the program. Caregivers will also be invited to participate in a session to learn ways to support their young person and promote recovery and stability. This program will be in addition to coordinated speciality care for early psychosis.

Standard Care (in control arm)

Coordinated speciality care for early psychosis

Primary outcome measure

  • Recruitment Rate [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the 3-month follow-up assessment ]
  • Retention Rate [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the 3-month follow-up assessment ]
  • Intervention Attendance [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of the intervention at 9 weeks ]
  • Acceptability [ Time Frame: The 3 month follow-up assessment ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Samantha Chalker, PhD

619-821-9415schalker@health.ucsd.edu

Locations

University of California, Los Angeles

Recruiting

Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095

Contacts

Carrie Bearden, PhD

310-206-2983cbearden@mednet.ucla.edu

University of California, San Diego

Recruiting

San Diego, California, United States, 92161

Contacts

Heline Mirzakhanian, PhD

619-543-3199carelab@health.ucsd.edu

More Information

Sponsor

University of California, San Diego

Last update posted

Oct 22, 2026

Last verified

Oct, 2026

Keywords

  • clinical high risk for psychosis
  • psychosis
  • early intervention
  • peer support
  • suicidal ideation
  • suicide
  • suicidal behavior
  • recovery
  • group intervention
  • implementation science
  • Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-10-23. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of California, San Diego on 2026-10-22. Recruitment status is synced daily from ClinicalTrials.gov and may not reflect the sponsor's current status. Confirm during your call.