Models of suicide risk: nice persons.
Crisis
; 11(2): 37-47, 1990 Nov.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-2076616
The hypotheses are advanced that: (1) certain types of persons at risk for suicide represent identifiable clinical models, and (2) that such models provide relatively homogeneous samples from which specific high-risk indicators can be derived for clinical application to others who represent that model. Nine-hundred and eighty-six psychiatric inpatients representing the "Nice Persons" model, including 35 suicides, were randomly divided into an index and a validation set. Statistical analysis of the index set (N = 579), using a screening procedure followed by linear discriminant and linear logistic procedures, identified 11 high-risk indicators from 184 prospectively determined variables. When applied to the independent validation set (N = 407), the 11 indicators identified the suicides in that set with a sensitivity of 46% and specificity of 88%. Though not statistically significant, this level of efficiency is clinically of considerable potential value. Most importantly, the hypothesis is testable and is shown to deserve further development.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Determinación de la Personalidad
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Suicidio
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Conducta de Ayuda
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Estilo de Vida
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Crisis
Año:
1990
Tipo del documento:
Article
Pais de publicación:
Canadá