COVID-19 and Mental Health (CMH) Initiative: Research

School-Based Suicide Risk Assessment Using eHealth: A Scoping Review

Key Messages

  • Peer-reviewed research on specific recommendations for conducting suicide risk assessments with youth via eHealth is extremely limited. The limited available research was also primarily conducted with older, female-identified, white, presumably heterosexual youth.
  • The majority of specific recommendations for conducting suicide risk assessment with youth via eHealth were found in grey literature documents from key school mental health/suicide prevention websites
  • As school mental health professionals are in need of immediate guidance in the face of COVID-19, the specific recommendations detailed by grey literature sources represent the most promising practices for current implementation

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • eHealth
  • School mental health
  • Scoping review
  • Suicide risk assessment
  • Youth

Author(s)

  • Nominated Principal Applicant: Deinera Exner-Cortens, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary
  • Deinera Exner-Cortens, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary
  • Elizabeth Baker, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary
  • Cristina Fernandez Conde, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary*
  • Shawna Gray, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary*
  • Rocio Ramirez Rivera, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary*
  • Marisa Van Bavel, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary*
  • Elisabeth Vezina, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary*
  • Aleta Ambrose, Child and Adolescent Addiction, Mental Health and Psychiatry Program, Alberta Health Services”
  • Chris Pawluk, Rocky View Schools”
  • Kelly Schwartz, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary”
  • Paul Arnold, Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

For more information, please contact: Deinera Exner-Cortens, deinera.exner2@ucalgary.ca

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Children, Youth and Families

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