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Development of Interview Form to Estimate the Risk of Self‐Destructive Behaviors
Author(s) -
Ono Izumi,
Murai Toshihiko,
Yasuda Kiwamu,
Nakamura Michihiko,
Nakajima Teruo
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1994.tb03076.x
Subject(s) - psychology , intraclass correlation , clinical psychology , rating scale , test validity , reliability (semiconductor) , psychometrics , beck hopelessness scale , psychiatry , developmental psychology , beck depression inventory , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , anxiety
The authors devised the interview form, Schedule of Self‐Destructive Risks (SOS‐DR), for the estimation of risks of self‐destructive behaviors, and developed the subscale of SOS‐DR especially to estimate hopelessness as a potential risk to suicide. SOS‐DR had a favorable inter‐rater reliability shown by Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) and Kuder‐Richardson's alpha coefficient. On the basis of correlations of items in SOS‐DR with Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) in 52 patients, 18 items were selected and named SOS‐18. SOS‐18 had favorable concurrent and discriminant validities as shown by correlating significantly with the BHS score but not with the score of Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) from which items common to SOS‐18 were eliminated. Therefore, SOS‐18 was considered to be a reliable indicator of hopelessness as a suicidal risk.