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Published on in Vol 13 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/89836, first published .
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Experiences and Perceptions of Crisis Text Services: Interview Study Among Young Adults With Suicidal Ideation

Experiences and Perceptions of Crisis Text Services: Interview Study Among Young Adults With Suicidal Ideation

Kate LaForge   1 , MPH, PhD ;   Alan R Teo   1, 2 , MS, MD ;   Lauren Denneson   1 , PhD ;   Jennifer A Hoffmann   3 , MD, MS ;   Peter C Britton   4 , PhD ;   Ashley A Foster   5 , MD

1 Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC), VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, OR, United States

2 Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States

3 Division of Emergency Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

4 Center of Excellence (CoE) for Suicide Prevention, VA Finger Lakes Healthcare System, Canandaigua, NY, United States

5 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Ashley A Foster, MD
  • Department of Emergency Medicine
  • University of California, San Francisco
  • 550 16th Street, PO Box 0649
  • San Francisco, CA 94143
  • United States
  • Email: ashley.foster@ucsf.edu