منابع مشابه
Assessing Risk for Imminent Suicide
431 ABSTRACT Most suicide victims see a health professional shortly before their death; yet, at present, clinicians have no tools for identifying those at acute risk. Clinical instruments valuable in predicting suicide over a 10year period were not effective in predicting completed suicides within a period of 6 months. In fact, the difference between chronic and imminent suicide risk has only r...
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One of the newer scales of suicide risk devised by Plutchik and colleagues was tested to see if it could discriminate between levels of suicide ideation and suicide attempts. A sample of 80 subjects were placed into various categories of suicide risk on the basis of a psychiatric examination. Results showed that the full scale did not adequately discriminate among groups. An explantation of the...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.310.6972.126c