SAFER: Clear, feasible rules for handling suicide risk in student research
Official title: Structuring Appropriate and Feasible Evaluations of Risk (SAFER)
Funded at Butler Hospital (Providence, Ri) · NIH-11286891 · Data updated 2026-11-12
This grant aims to build and test safer, evidence-based rules for managing suicide risk in research with college students.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R03 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Butler Hospital (Providence, Ri) NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Providence, United States) |
| Project start | May 1, 2026 |
| Project end | April 30, 2028 |
| Funding year | 2026 |
| Award (this year) | $165,987 |
| NIH project number | 1R03MH143127-01 |
| Project ID | NIH-11286891 on NIH RePORTER |
Who could benefit from this research
✓Could help
Ideal participants are college students or young adults who are involved in suicide-risk-related research or who have lived experiences with suicidal thoughts.
✕Less likely to help
Students not enrolled in suicide-risk research or those not affected by risk management protocols may not benefit directly.
What this research studies
Researchers will develop and evaluate protocols for detecting and responding to suicide risk in studies involving students, balancing safety with scientific integrity. The project will gather input from students with lived experience and suicide experts, then test how different risk-management approaches affect safety and data quality. The work will include interviews to understand acceptability and experiments to see how protocols perform in real-study settings.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this could make student suicide research safer and more reliable, helping protect participants while keeping study results trustworthy.
How similar studies have gone: Preliminary work suggests that tailored risk-management protocols can influence safety and data validity, but this project aims to establish evidence-based approaches.
Where this research is happening
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Butler Hospital (Providence, Ri)
Providence, United States Active
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Arias, Sarah a — Butler Hospital (Providence, Ri)
- Study coordinator: Arias, Sarah a
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page.