The overall goal of this CORE is to accelerate suicide prevention research that will lead to improvements in care, and that will ultimately result in reductions in suicide behaviors among Veterans. SPRINT’s Principal Investigators are: Steven Dobscha, MD, Director, HSR&D’s Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC); Mark Ilgen, PhD, Research Career Scientist, HSR&D’s Center for Clinical Management (CCMR); and Teresa Hudson, PhD, PharmD, Associate Director of HSR&D’s Center for Mental Healthcare & Outcomes Research (CeMHOR).
![]() Steven Dobscha, MD |
![]() Mark Ilgen, PhD |
![]() Teresa Hudson, PhD, PharmD |
Upcoming
Wednesday, February 3, 11:00am – 12pm Eastern
Trauma and Suicidal Self-Directed Violence among Women Veterans
Past Sessions
11/09/2020 Encouraging the use of the Veterans Crisis Line among high-risk Veterans
10/07/2020 Brief Interventions to Prevent Suicide: An introduction
9/21/2020 Pharmacogenetics Trial of Depression: A focus on suicidal thoughts
7/13/2020 Suicidal Self-Directed Violence among Women Veterans
To accelerate VA suicide prevention (SP) research that will improve care and reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviors among Veterans.
Partners include:
SPRINT's Evidence Review Workgroup recently reviewed current evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, prior evidence synthesis reports and publications, and active research and evaluation projects in suicide prevention to identify areas in the suicide prevention field to identify current gaps in evidence that warrant additional attention and identify topics that may be ready for development of a living systematic review (LSR): download here
HSR&D Suicide Prevention Research Impact NeTwork (SPRINT) and Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention hosted a Virtual Conference July 9-10, 2020.
DAY 1 presentation slides: Suicide Prevention Research in VA: Developing a Continuum of Intervention
DAY 2 presentation slides: Suicide Prevention Research in VA: Moving Us Forward (a working meeting)
Download conference brochure.
In 2019, the SPRINT Core team solicited feedback from current and aspiring suicide prevention HSR&D researchers. The needs assessment included questions about areas of interest and expertise, and gathered input we hope will support communication, networking, and development of new collaborations. Here we provide a summary of the results from the needs assessment.
On September 5, 2019, SPRINT convened a working meeting in Portland to synthesize an initial SPRINT research agenda and develop a set of initial project ideas to be supported by SPRINT via communications to stakeholders, pilot funding, and infrastructure. Attendees included the SPRINT Core investigator group and representatives from across ORD, DoD, NIH, the Military Suicide Research Consortium, and the VHA Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. An Executive Summary of this meeting is provided here and a Compendium of Systematic Reviews of Suicide Prevention Topics prepared by VA's Evidence Synthesis Program in partnership with CIVIC for the meeting, located here. Topics identified from this meeting as a high priority for SPRINT to facilitate in FY2020 are located here.
For more information, or to join our listserv, email SuicidePreventionRes@va.gov.