Sara J. Landes
High Impact
Professor
faculty
PSY Psychiatry, College of Medicine
32 h-index
127 pubs
3,891 cited
Research Areas
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Biography and Research Information
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Sara J. Landes is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Her research focuses on suicide prevention, particularly within veteran populations and psychiatric inpatient settings. She has investigated the effectiveness of various interventions, including dialectical behavior therapy delivered via telehealth and intensive postdischarge suicide prevention programs.
Dr. Landes has been involved in evaluating suicide risk modeling clinical programs, such as the Recovery Engagement and Coordination for Health–Veterans Enhanced Treatment (REACH VET) Program within the Veterans Health Administration. Her work also explores implementation science, examining factors like provider perspectives on treatment delivery and stakeholder perceptions of lethal means safety counseling. She has published extensively on these topics, with a h-index of 32 and over 3,700 citations across more than 125 publications.
Her collaborations include extensive work with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, such as JoAnn E. Kirchner, Rajinder Sonia Singh, and Karen L. Drummond. Dr. Landes maintains an active lab website to share her research.
Metrics
- h-index: 32
- Publications: 127
- Citations: 3,891
Selected Publications
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Implementation of a fully virtual enterprise-wide clinical evidence-based suicide prevention program in the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs: the suicide prevention 2.0 clinical telehealth initiative (2026)
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The Evidence for Dialectical Behavior Therapy Did Not Worsen: Interpreting the 2024 VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for Suicide (2025)
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Collaborative Implementation Planning to Jumpstart Advance Care Planning with Alaska Native and American Indian peoples in Primary Care (2025)
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Treatment Outcomes Across White and Non-White Patients in an Outpatient Private Practice Setting (2025)
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Improving health care through the U.S. Veterans Health Administration’s nationwide LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator Program (2025)
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Translating implementation science principles and methods to front-line clinicians: The Implementation Science Scholars Program (2025)
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Study protocol of a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation multisite trial: Dialectical behavior therapy skills group for Veterans at high-risk for suicide attempt (2025)
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Mixed-methods formative evaluation of implementing an adapted suicide prevention treatment: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Groups in the Veterans Health Administration (2024)
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Successful pilot implementation of mailing lethal means safety devices to veterans calling the Veterans Crisis Line (2024)
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Design of a multicenter randomized controlled trial of a post‐discharge suicide prevention intervention for high‐risk psychiatric inpatients: The Veterans Coordinated Community Care Study (2024)
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Reducing Iatrogenic Blood Losses in Premature Infants (2024)
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A COLLABORATIVE CARE INTERVENTION TO PREVENT DEATH FROM OPIOID OVERDOSE AND SUICIDE AMONG THOSE WITH CO-OCCURRING DISORDERS (2024)
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Caring Letters Sent by a Clinician or Peer to At-Risk Veterans (2024)
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Getting to Fidelity: Consensus Development Process to Identify Core Activities of Implementation Facilitation (2024)
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Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States (2024)
Research Interests
implementation research; suicide prevention
Grants & Funding
- Veteran Engagement Implementation Strategies to Prevent Rural Veteran Suicide VA Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) Other
- In vivo, noninvasive, ultrasensitive photoacoustic detection of early breast cancer metastasis in bone US Department of the Army Principal Investigator
- Behavioral Health QUERI: Advancing 21st Century Mental Health Care for Veterans VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) Program Principal Investigator
- Military Suicide Research Consortium Dissemination and Implementation Core - Continuation - Continuation - Continuation - Continuation US Department of the Army - Pass Through: University of Washington Principal Investigator
- Jumpstarting Culturally-informed Advance Care Planning Conversations with AIAN People in Primary Care (JUMP) NIH/Nat. Inst. of Nursing Research - Pass Through: Southcentral Foundation Principal Investigator
- Randomized Evaluation of a Caring Letters Suicide Prevention Campaign for Service Members Transitioning to Civilian Life VA (QUERI) Partnered Evaluation Initiative Co-Investigator
- Implementing Caring Contacts for Suicide Prevention in Non-Mental Health Settings NIH Principal Investigator
- Jumpstarting Culturally-informed Advance Care Planning Conversations with AIAN People in Primary Care (JUMP) NIH/Nat. Inst. of Nursing Research - Pass Through: Southcentral Foundation Principal Investigator
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
JoAnn E. Kirchner
Quality Enhancement Research Initiative
10 shared publications
In database
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Getting to Fidelity: Consensus Development Process to Identify Core Activities of Implementation Facilitation
- Getting to fidelity: Scoping review and expert panel process to identify core activities of implementation facilitation strategies
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
Rajinder Sonia Singh
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
9 shared publications
In database
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
- A Functional Approach to the Assessment and Treatment of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Veterans: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy–Informed Perspective
- Engaging frontline workers in policy development to support the implementation of measurement-based care: Lessons learned from a field-based workgroup
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
Mark A. Reger
VA Puget Sound Health Care System (US)
8 shared publications
- Evaluation of the Recovery Engagement and Coordination for Health–Veterans Enhanced Treatment Suicide Risk Modeling Clinical Program in the Veterans Health Administration
- The Veterans Health Administration REACH VET Program: Suicide Predictive Modeling in Practice
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Development of the Veterans Crisis Line Caring Letters Suicide Prevention Intervention
- Implementation strategy to increase clinicians’ use of the caring letters suicide prevention intervention.
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Karen L. Drummond
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
7 shared publications
In database
- Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework
- Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts
- Determining feasibility of incorporating consumer engagement into implementation activities: study protocol of a hybrid effectiveness-implementation type II pilot
- Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework
- Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Traci H. Abraham
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (US)
6 shared publications
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Development of the Veterans Crisis Line Caring Letters Suicide Prevention Intervention
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States
- Engaging frontline workers in policy development to support the implementation of measurement-based care: Lessons learned from a field-based workgroup
- Qualitative Evaluation of a Caring Letters Suicide Prevention Intervention for the Veterans Crisis Line
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Mona J. Ritchie
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (US)
6 shared publications
- Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework
- Getting to Fidelity: Consensus Development Process to Identify Core Activities of Implementation Facilitation
- Getting to fidelity: Scoping review and expert panel process to identify core activities of implementation facilitation strategies
- Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework
- Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Brandy N. Smith
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (US)
6 shared publications
- Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework
- Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework
- Barriers and Facilitators to Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Groups in the Veterans Health Administration
- Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework
- Impact of Implementation Facilitation on the REACH VET Clinical Program for Veterans at Risk for Suicide
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Geoffrey M. Curran
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
6 shared publications
In database
- Reflections on 10 years of effectiveness-implementation hybrid studies
- Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) in the pre-implementation phase: key steps and activities
- Reducing Iatrogenic Blood Losses in Premature Infants
- Rural community pharmacists’ perceptions of implementing mental health interventions to reach underserved populations.
- Effectiveness of a targeted brief intervention for recent suicide attempt survivors: a randomised controlled trial protocol
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Sacha A. McBain
Arkansas Department of Health (US)
4 shared publications
- Reflections on 10 years of effectiveness-implementation hybrid studies
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Prospective predictors of work limitations in young adult lesbian and bisexual women: An examination of minority stress, trauma exposure, and mental health.
- Effectiveness of a Self-Administered Computerized Mental Health Screening Tool in the Emergency Department
Aaron Eagan
Department of Veterans Affairs (AU)
4 shared publications
- Evaluation of the Recovery Engagement and Coordination for Health–Veterans Enhanced Treatment Suicide Risk Modeling Clinical Program in the Veterans Health Administration
- The Veterans Health Administration REACH VET Program: Suicide Predictive Modeling in Practice
- Impact of Implementation Facilitation on the REACH VET Clinical Program for Veterans at Risk for Suicide
- Expanding veteran suicide prevention: The role of community engagement and partnership coordinators.
Bridget B. Matarazzo
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (US)
4 shared publications
- Evaluation of the Recovery Engagement and Coordination for Health–Veterans Enhanced Treatment Suicide Risk Modeling Clinical Program in the Veterans Health Administration
- The Veterans Health Administration REACH VET Program: Suicide Predictive Modeling in Practice
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Impact of Implementation Facilitation on the REACH VET Clinical Program for Veterans at Risk for Suicide
Susan M. Jegley
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (US)
4 shared publications
- Adapting Caring Contacts for Veterans in a Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Department: Results From a Type 2 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Study
- Implementation strategy to increase clinicians’ use of the caring letters suicide prevention intervention.
- Successful pilot implementation of mailing lethal means safety devices to veterans calling the Veterans Crisis Line
- Impact of Implementation Facilitation on the REACH VET Clinical Program for Veterans at Risk for Suicide
Jennifer L. Sullivan
Providence VA Medical Center (US)
4 shared publications
- Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework
- Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework
- Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework
- Development of a framework-informed codebook for analyzing qualitative data using i-PARIHS
Suzanne E. Decker
4 shared publications
- Barriers and Facilitators to Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Groups in the Veterans Health Administration
- Mixed-methods formative evaluation of implementing an adapted suicide prevention treatment: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Groups in the Veterans Health Administration
- Study protocol of a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation multisite trial: Dialectical behavior therapy skills group for Veterans at high-risk for suicide attempt
- Staff perspectives on implementing dialectical behavior therapy skills groups in the Veterans Health Administration.
Marianne Goodman
4 shared publications
- Cost comparison of in-person and telehealth modalities for a suicide safety planning group intervention: interim results from the “Project Life Force” randomized clinical trial
- Mixed-methods formative evaluation of implementing an adapted suicide prevention treatment: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Groups in the Veterans Health Administration
- Study protocol of a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation multisite trial: Dialectical behavior therapy skills group for Veterans at high-risk for suicide attempt
- Staff perspectives on implementing dialectical behavior therapy skills groups in the Veterans Health Administration.
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