Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
509th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron, Knob Noster, MO 65305, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 18;18(6):3153. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18063153.
In light of data indicating military personnel are more likely to reach out to peers during times of need, peer-to-peer (P2P) support programs have been implemented for military suicide prevention. Often designed to reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviors by reducing mental health symptom severity, existing data suggest that P2P programs have little to no effect on mental health symptoms. Conceptualizing suicide prevention from an occupational safety and injury prevention perspective to promote positive health-related behavior change at both the group and individual level may enhance the effectiveness of P2P programs and military suicide prevention efforts more broadly. To illustrate these concepts, the present article provides an overview of the Airman's Edge project, a P2P program design based upon the occupational safety and injury prevention model of suicide prevention, and describes a program evaluation effort designed to test the effectiveness of this approach.
鉴于数据表明军人在需要时更倾向于向同龄人寻求帮助，因此已经实施了同伴支持计划来预防军人自杀。这些计划通常旨在通过减轻心理健康症状的严重程度来减少自杀念头和行为，但现有数据表明，同伴支持计划对心理健康症状几乎没有影响。从职业安全和伤害预防的角度来理解预防自杀，以促进群体和个人层面的积极与健康相关的行为改变，可能会提高同伴支持计划的效果，并更广泛地加强军人自杀预防工作。为了说明这些概念，本文概述了 Airman's Edge 项目，这是一个基于职业安全和伤害预防模式预防自杀的同伴支持计划设计，并描述了一项旨在测试这种方法有效性的计划评估工作。
