Resource Tag: BECK SCALE FOR SUICIDE IDEATION

The computer-assisted version of the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation was administered to 330 psychiatric inpatients diagnosed with mixed disorders. Of the 330 inpatients, 115 were classifed as suicide ideators according to this scale. Three factors were found that reflected desire for death, preparation for suicide & active suicidal desire. The importance of assessing specific […]

In a controlled trial, 20 patients at high risk of repeated suicide attempts were randomly allocated to either cognitive-behavioural problem solving or a “treatment-as-usual” control condition. The group practising problem solving improved significantly more than controls on ratings of depression, hopelessness, suicidal ideation & target problems at the end of treatment & at follow-up of […]

26 protocol statements reflecting important specific aspects of Beck’s formulations on suicide were deduced for this study. Significant interjudge reliability was demonstrated between 30 genuine and 30 simulated notes. Individual statements significantly more highly rated in the genuine notes indicated the presence of ideas of deprivation, perseveration, overgeneralization, inexact labelling, magnification and minimization. Implications of […]

This study examines the relationship of patients’ response style to clinicians’ ratings of intent. 50 suicide ideators were assessed using 3 scales. An item factor analysis of the scale for suicide ideation yielded 2 factors: suicidal desire & suicide preparation. Hopelessness & undesirability were associated with suicidal desire; hoplessness was independent of suicide preparation. It […]

73 inpatients completed Beck’s Suicide Ideator Scale, Beck’s Hopelessness Scale and the MMPI Depression Scale. As hypothesized, suicide intent was significantly more correlated with hopelessness than with depression. When the effect of hopelessness was removed statistically, there was no relationship between suicide intent and depression.

Study to assess the effectiveness of various treatments of suicide attempters using fifteen psychiatric patients randomly assigned to the cognitive restructuring group, the problem solving group and the non-directive control group. Assessment instruments used were Self-Monitoring of Suicidal Ideation, the Scale for Suicide Ideation, Hopelessness Scale, Means-Ends Problem Solving and Alternate Uses Test. (KB)

Study to examine the prevalence of suicidal feelings and behaviors in patients in a psychiatric hospital and to place patients into groups according to the intensity of their suicidal feelings or behaviors. Relationships between placement and several variables known to be related to completed suicide are studied, such as demographic characterstics, lethality of attempt, number […]

The rationale, development & validation of the Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI) is described. The scale was found to have high internal consistency & moderately high correlations with clinical ratings of suicidal risk & self-administered measures of self-harm. It was sensitive to changes in levels of depression & hopelessness over time. Factor analysis yielded 3 […]