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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Obegi, Joseph H.
• Neal, Tess M. S
• Lamb, Michael E
• Barber-Rioja, Virginia
• Batastini, Ashley
• Eno Louden, Jennifer

Titel

Monitoring a Correctional Suicide Prevention Program: The Roles of Implementation and Intermediate Outcomes

Ist Teil von

• Psychology, public policy, and law, 2024-02, Vol.30 (1), p.59-65

Ort / Verlag

American Psychological Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Quelle

EBSCO_PsycARTICLES

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A significant policy step toward preventing suicide in jails and prisons was the development of standards for local suicide prevention programs (SPPs). The next frontier is the creation of a specialized quality assurance system so that facilities, as well as stakeholders, can be confident that the SPPs are being implemented as designed. Such a system requires continuous monitoring of implementation outcomes, which indicate how well each component of the SPP is performing, and intermediate outcomes, which indicate progress toward the long-term goal of reducing suicide and permit real-time surveillance of emerging suicide risks. Implementation and intermediate outcomes support data-driven quality improvement and allow facilities to identify and respond to new hazards. To help facilities step into this new frontier, I discuss how three types of implementation outcomes-penetration, sustainability, and quality of delivery-can be applied to a correctional SPP, advise how to translate policy components of a correctional SPP into metrics for implementation outcomes, and suggest measures of intermediate outcomes that may signal emerging suicide risk. Finally, I describe how implementation and intermediate outcomes are complementary and offer some practical considerations when creating and monitoring these outcomes.