Assessing suicide risk using the Brief Suicide Questionnaire - preliminary results
Rihmer, Z.; Dome, P.; Gonda, X.; Rihmer, A.; Belteczki, Z.
Neuropsychopharmacologia Hungarica a Magyar Pszichofarmakologiai Egyesulet Lapja 20(1): 14-17
2018
ISSN/ISBN: 1419-8711 PMID: 29790848 Document Number: 695761
The authors tested the clinical applicability of a self-developed, 6-item, clinician-rated questionnaire evaluating suicide risk in suicidal and non-suicidal psychiatric inpatients and healthy controls. Results have shown that the questionnaires able to detect marked suicide risk in psychiatric inpatients with a high sensitivity and specificity which indicates its usefulness and good applicability in clinical practice.