The Complexity of Assessing Overall Severity of Suicidality: A Case Study

Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience

Jennifer M. Giddens¹  David V. Sheehan¹ 

[1] J. Giddens is Co-founder of the Tampa Center for Research on Suicidality, Tampa, Florida; and Dr. Sheehan is Distinguished University Health Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida.

关键词: Suicide scale;    suicide assessment;    suicide risk;    suicide;    suicidality;    S-STS;    SPTS;    time spent;    global severity;    hopelessness;   

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学科分类：精神健康和精神病学

来源: Matrix Medical Communications, LLC

【 摘 要 】

Objectives: This paper investigates the relationship between total scale scores and some other measures used to assess global severity of suicidality in order to determine if “global assessment” can be accomplished with one metric or if is it necessary to judge severity of suicidality in a multidimensional fashion.

【 授权许可】

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