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. |
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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). |
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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. |