Notice:

The QPR Institute is currently submitting all research and materials to the Substance Abuse Mental Health Administration’s National Registry for Evidence-based Programs and Practices. This registry serves as the national resource center for “contemporary and reliable information on the scientific basis and practicality of interventions to prevent and/or treat mental illness and substance abuse disorders.” The registry accepts new applications beginning in October 2008.

In the interim and below, the Institute will list the authors, titles, and abstracts (where available) of all evaluations of QPR and other training programs as they are published or reported from third party organizations. If your organization has produced an independent evaluation of QPR gatekeeper training, or any of our other training programs, please notify us so that, with your permission, we can post that evaluation and your contact information here.

Thank you,

Staff and Faculty, QPR Institute

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While the QPR Institute is not primarily a research organization, we do carefully evaluate all our training programs, interview protocols, print and video materials. Recognizing the lack of quality research in many areas of suicide prevention, where at all possible we follow an evidence-based approach. When we innovate, we do so only with data collection and evaluation systems in place. In the training of professionals, we provide pre-post testing and competency measures to determine training effects on changes in clinical practice. We also provide proven tested evaluation measures and protocols to assess outcomes for those who wish to employ our training programs in their agencies and communities.

The QPR Institute has conducted several formal evaluations of our gatekeeper training program and, with Spokane Mental Health, we have researched our clinical interview risk assessment methods, their effectiveness in data collection, and their impact on both suicidal consumers of mental health services and the clinicians who provide those services.

We collaborate with other institutes and university-based research teams and maintain a faculty of active, and well known, university-based researchers to guide and direct our ongoing evaluation methods, as well as to coordinate our research activities with other groups and organizations.

Licensing agreements between the QPR Institute and medical-surgical or psychiatric hospitals, mental health organizations and large healthcare systems using our suicide risk reduction program may include an agreement to share in the data collected by those organizations. This database provides import source material for current and future researchers. For example, as of this writing, we have more than 35,000 patient responses to the standardized questions included in our QPRT Suicide Risk Management Inventories.

Since it’s inception, the QPR Institute has collaborated with graduate school students and researchers in the evaluation of our work from the following organizations:

  • University of Washington Department of Public Health, Seattle, WA (masters thesis on QPR).
  • Spokane Mental Health, Spokane WA.
  • Department of Research and Program Evaluation, Albuquerque Public Schools, Albuquerque, NM (check)
  • The Washington Institute for Mental Illness Research and Training/Washington State University, Spokane, WA
  • The Deveruex Foundation, Villanova, PA
  • The University of Alabama Department of Public Health, Mobile, AL
  • The Washington State Youth Suicide Prevention Program, Seattle, WA
  • The University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
  • The University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
The Faculty and Staff of the QPR Institute