A Pilot Evaluation of a Digital Peer Support Intervention for Suicidal Adolescents

This is a single-arm investigation of a novel suicide prevention intervention, called "Supporting Wellbeing with Everyday Experiences of Peers" (SWEEP). In a preliminary phase of the study, suicide recovery narratives: short first-person stories about lived experience with and recovery from Bronx Adolescents will be collected. The investigator team will then evaluate evaluate the anti-suicidal benefits of this intervention in a single-arm trial. Adolescent participants (n=46) will be provided with the SWEEP intervention, which involves reading or listening to one suicide recovery narrative each day during the 14-day trial. The narratives will be provided, in audio and text formats via a smartphone app. That same smartphone app will also collect real-time (ecological momentary) assessments of suicidal thoughts, the primary outcome of the study, five times per day. This app will also collect secondary and additional outcomes. The investigator team will evaluate whether participants experience reductions in the intensity of suicidal thoughts over the course of the 14-day trial.