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Identifying Outpatients with Entrenched Suicidal Ideation Following Hospitalization
Author(s) -
O’Connor Stephen S.,
Jobes David A.,
Comtois Katherine Anne,
Atkins David C.,
Janis Karin,
E.Chessen Chloe,
J.Landes Sara
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.2012.00080.x
Subject(s) - suicidal ideation , ambivalence , ideation , psychiatry , clinical psychology , suicide prevention , psychology , index (typography) , medicine , poison control , medical emergency , social psychology , cognitive science , world wide web , computer science
The purpose of this study was to identify outpatients who experience entrenched suicidal ideation following inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. Our findings suggest that the use of a suicidal ambivalence index score was helpful at discriminating those who reported significantly greater ratings of suicidal ideation across a 1‐year period of time, whereas splitting patients based upon suicide attempt history yielded nonsignificant results. Similar findings resulted from a dimensional analytic approach, as well. Application of the suicidal ambivalence index may help administrators identify patients who require more intensive clinical services to resolve their suicidal ideation.