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SPRINT Priorities

One of SPRINT's main goals is to work with stakeholders, including our operations partners, to support a focused health services suicide prevention research agenda for Veterans. This process includes identifying high research priority areas that can be disseminated to the field and be supported by SPRINT Planning Awards.

In consultation with operations partners and based on review of evidence gaps, SPRINT has identified the following specific topic areas as especially high priorities to support in Fiscal Year 2025:

Lethal Means Safety

  • Includes use of innovative approaches to messaging/communications intended to reduce access to lethal means during periods of increased risk
  • Includes understanding and working within the context of Veteran firearm-owning culture
  • Includes studies examining effectiveness of training programs for clinicians and staff, Veterans, families, or other gatekeepers

Engagement

  • Includes engaging with community partners and in community settings
  • Includes engaging with family, friends, peers and social networks to enhance suicide prevention
  • Engaging Veterans not connected to VA or to healthcare outside of VA.

Precision Medicine

  • Differential treatment response/Treatment moderators
  • Predictive analytics
  • Understanding risk fluctuations over time, and matching specific treatments to level of risk
  • Development of precision medicine models and tools that incorporate personal characteristics and/or social determinants of health

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