@article{ref1,
title="Who benefits most from suicide prevention workshops in schools?",
journal="Zeitschrift fur Entwicklungspsychologie und Padagogische Psychologie",
year="2022",
author="Bockhoff, K. and Bruder, S. and Ellermeier, W. and Rohrbach, T. and Hertel, U.S.",
volume="54",
number="2",
pages="80-92",
abstract="To improve suicide prevention in schools, we implemented workshops for students in grades 8 - 10. The students (N=200) were randomly assigned to either a training or a control group and were surveyed regarding their help-seeking and help-giving behavior and their depressive symptoms both before and after the training as well as 3 months later. The results indicate that especially those students assessed to be at a higher risk for suicide benefitted most from the training. Their number of depressive symptoms decreased significantly and remained stable. Participants undergoing the training tended to be more likely to ask a teacher for help and to initiate more crisis counseling interactions with peers in need than did untrained controls; these differences, however, were not statistically significant. Though hampered by high dropout rates because of the Covid-19 pandemic and a restrictive prescreening process, these results indicate the positive effects of an extracurricular suicide prevention program on students' well-being and behavior. © 2022 The Author(s).<p /><p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0049-8637",
doi="10.1026/0049-8637/a000252",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1026/0049-8637/a000252"
}