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. 2014 Oct 29;2014(10):CD009439. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009439.pub2

Drabek 1991.

Methods CBA (clustered by session date).
Participants 48 (33 analysed) faculty members with full‐time appointments, aged 27 to 66 years.
24 (20 analysed) student‐service personnel, aged 25 to 56 years. University of South Dakota, USA.
Interventions Intervention: 90‐minute suicide prevention program with didactic and experiential components (i.e. discussion regarding case scenarios of at‐risk students; 19 faculty and 14 student‐service personnel).
Delayed treatment control group: same intervention delayed until after completion of initial post‐tests (14 faculty and 6 student‐service personnel).
Outcomes 10‐item (5‐point Likert scale, 1 "strongly agree" to 5 "strongly disagree") SOQ‐AF, 13‐item Recognition of Suicide Lethality Scale (RSL), 33‐item (true/false) Quiz on Knowledge of Suicide (QKS), 18‐item Assessment of Appropriate Responses Scale (AARS). All outcomes measured pre‐intervention and 1 week post‐intervention (or comparable timing for delayed treatment controls).
Notes Reliability for the SOQ‐AF was 0.79. Cronbach's alpha for the RSL was 0.65.
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) High risk Not used.
Allocation concealment (selection bias) High risk Not used.
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information provided.
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes High risk Outcomes were self‐reported.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes High risk 53/72 participants provided sufficient data for analyses; reasons for dropout were not reported.
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information provided.
Other bias High risk Participants were assigned to a group by the investigators based on the session date that they self‐selected to attend.