SPTD: Suicide Prevention Trials Database

Access the Suicide Prevention Trials Database (SPTD)

• Current SPTD Excel Database (April 2024)
• Current SPTD Data Dictionary Word or Excel file (March 2024)
• SPTD Data Stories and Interactive Data Dashboard
  • SPTD Data Story 1 What Interventions Have Been Studied
  • SPTD Data Story 2 Who Has Been Studied
  • Interactive SPTD Data Dashboard

About SPTD

The SPTD is a publicly available database of study-level data from published trials of suicide prevention approaches. The database may be used for future systematic reviews or clinical practice guidelines, for identifying research gaps, and as an information resource for clinicians, patients, policymakers, and family members.

Similar to other clinical trial databases such as the PTSD-Repository, the SPTD utilizes systematic review methods to search for, identify, and compile data from relevant trials. Researchers abstract detailed data elements related to participant, intervention, comparator, outcome, and other study characteristics, and conduct risk of bias assessments. The search is updated approximately twice yearly to maintain an up-to-date database. Data are currently available in Excel spreadsheets. 

Recommended Citation

Denneson, L. M., O’Neil, M. E., Veazie, S., Hannon, S., Baker-Robinson, W., Krushnic, D., Clauss, K., Carlson, K., Hamblen, J., & Constans, J. (2024). SPTD: Suicide Prevention Trials Database. https://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/centers/core/sprint/sptd.cfm

Funder

This project is funded by a service directed research award to Dr. Denneson and Dr. O’Neil from VA Clinical Science Research and Development (CSR&D) (Award # SDR-SPTD-20S).

Partners

The Office of Suicide Prevention serves as a VA operational partner and the Suicide Prevention Research Impact NeTwork (SPRINT) serves as a project partner.

SPTD Team

SPTD Co-Principal Investigators:

• Lauren Denneson, PhD
• Maya O’Neil, PhD

SPTD Investigators:

• Kathleen Carlson, PhD
• Kate Clauss, PhD
• Jessica Hamblen, PhD
• Stephanie Veazie, MPH

SPTD Data Team:

• Joren Adams, BS, PhD Candidate
• William Baker-Robinson, MS
• Sara Hannon, MS
• Rebecca Jungbauer, PhD
• Danielle Krushnic, MPH
• Kate Pierce, BS
• Emily Sano, MA
• Mesa Willis, MPH
• Bryce O’Shea, BA
• Emily Young, BS

SPTD VA Operational Partners:

• Joseph Constans, PhD, Office of Research & Development
• Susan Strickland, PhD, LCSW, Office of Suicide Prevention

Archive of Prior SPTD Documents and Updates

• January 2024: SPTD Phase I Dataset_01_2024
• March 2023: SPTD Data Story 1 What Interventions Have Been Studied
• April 2023: SPTD Data Story 2 Who Has Been Studied
• February 2022: List of Phase 1 included articles available as a Word file, Excel file, and RIS file
• October 2023: Data dictionary available as a Word file and Excel file
• February 2022: Updated SPTD Phase 1 protocol
• June 2021: SPTD launch announcement

Questions?

Email lauren.denneson@va.gov or maya.oneil@va.gov with any questions.

Learn more about the Office of Research and Development’s portfolio of suicide prevention research at Suicide Prevention Research (va.gov)