International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
April 1, 2022
Megan S Chesin, Chintan V Dave, Catherine E Myers et al.
Knowledge of how to effectively prevent suicide attempt (SA) in high suicide risk patients who also misuse opioids is limited. In a subset of data from 36 participants with baseline opioid misuse in a randomized clinical trial testing adjunctive Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to prevent suicide among high suicide risk Veterans (n=18 per treatment condition), MBCT-S reduced the likelihood...
Behaviour Research and Therapy
October 1, 2021
Megan S Chesin, John G Keilp, Anna Kline et al.
Objective: To test whether Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Prevent Suicide (MBCT-S) is associated with improvement in attentional control, an objective marker of suicide attempt. Method: In the context of a randomized clinical trial targeting suicide risk in Veterans, computerized Stroop and emotion Stroop (E-Stroop) tasks were administered 3 times over 6-months follow-up to 135 high...
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
August 31, 2021
Alejandro Interian, Megan S Chesin, Barbara Stanley et al.
Objective: This study evaluated whether Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Preventing Suicide Behavior (MBCT-S) effectively augmented treatment-as-usual enhanced for suicide prevention (eTAU).Methods: From December 2013 through March 2018, veterans (N = 140) at high risk for suicide were recruited mostly (88.6%) during a suicide-related inpatient admission and randomly assigned to either...
Crisis
May 31, 2018
Megan S Chesin, Beth S. Brodsky, Brandon Beeler et al.
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BACKGROUND: Few investigations of patient perceptions of suicide prevention interventions exist, limiting our understanding of the processes and components of treatment that may be engaging and effective for high suicide-risk patients. AIMS: Building on promising quantitative data that showed that adjunct mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to prevent suicidal behavior (MBCT-S) reduced suicidal...
Contemporary Clinical Trials
September 2016
Anna Kline, Megan S Chesin, Miriam Latorre et al.
Although suicide ranks 10th as a cause of death in the United States, and 1st among active military personnel, there are surprisingly few evidence-based therapies addressing suicidality, and development of new treatments is limited. This paper describes a clinical trial testing a novel therapy for reducing suicide risk in military veterans. The intervention, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
August 2016
Megan S Chesin, Christopher A. Benjamin-Phillips, John G Keilp et al.
To test changes to cognitive functioning among high-suicide risk outpatients participating in an adjunct mindfulness-based intervention combining mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and safety planning (MBCT-S). Ten outpatients with a 6-month history of suicide attempt or active suicidal ideation plus suicidal ideation at study entry received 9 weeks of adjunct group-based MBCT-S. Executive...