Developing a research strategy for suicide prevention in the Department of Defense : status of current research, prioritizing areas of need, and recommendations for moving forward / Rajeev Ramchand, Nicole K. Eberhart, Christopher Guo, Eric Pedersen, Terrance Dean Savitsky, Terri Tanielian, Phoenix Voorhies.

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1. Introduction -- 2. Current suicide prevention research in the United States that is directly relevant to military personnel -- 3. Prioritizing research needs in the U.S. Department of Defense -- 4. Preliminary gap analysis -- 5. Modeling DoD's suicide prevention research priorities -- 6. Translating research into practice -- 7. Recommendations for a research strategy -- Appendix A. Ongoing studies of relevance to suicide prevention among military personnel -- Appendix B. Alternative allocation analysis -- Appendix C. Statistical procedure for extracting rankings from the RAND ExpertLens panel -- Appendix D. Feedback from DoD stakeholders about the RAND ExpertLens process -- Appendix E. Sensitivity analysis of the benefit-cost index rankings -- Appendix F. Research domains and approaches for assessing research quality.

The study indexed each of 12 research goals according to rankings of importance, effectiveness, cultural acceptability, cost, and learning potential provided by experts who participated in a multistep elicitation exercise. The results revealed that research funding is overwhelmingly allocated to prevention goals already considered by experts to be effective. Other goals considered by experts to be important and appropriate for the military context receive relatively little funding and have been the subject of relatively few studies, meaning that there is still much to learn about these strategies. Furthermore, DoD, like other organizations, suffers from a research-to-practice gap. The most promising results from studies funded by DoD and other entities do not always find their way to those responsible for implementing suicide prevention programs that serve military personnel.

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