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Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention Advance Access first published online on September 20, 2006
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Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, doi:10.1093/brief-treatment/mhl011
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Program Evaluation of the Samaritans of New York's Public Education Suicide Awareness and Prevention Training Program

Monica M. Matthieu PhD, LCSW 1 *, Alan Ross MA 2, and Kerry L. Knox PhD 3

1 From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center
2 From the Samaritans of New York
3 From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center; From the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Monica M. Matthieu, E-mail: monica_matthieu{at}.urmc.rochester.edu


  Abstract

The Samaritans of New York provide a public education suicide awareness and prevention training program focusing on suicide awareness and training in the skills and philosophy to befriend a person in crisis. Fifty-nine participants from a city department of human resources "helpline" to participated in a 3-hr employee training for information line service providers. Participants completed a pre/postmeasure of knowledge and efficacy to manage a caller in distress or in a suicidal crisis. The participants were predominately female (n = 52; 88%), 90% from diverse cultural groups, with ages ranging from 20 to 65 (M = 44; SD = 10.3). Results showed that participants scored significantly higher on measures of perceived knowledge about suicide and self-efficacy to intervene with a person thought to be at risk for suicide after training (M = 25.7, SD = 5.9) than before (M = 15.0, SD = 6.1) (t = -10.71, p < .0001). The training program increased the abilities, awareness, and confidence levels of people whose jobs it is on a daily basis to provide care, comfort, and support for those who are in crisis and at risk for suicide.

Keywords: suicide; prevention; program evaluation; training; Samaritans.

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