title: Identification of suicide attempters by means of MMPI profiles.
abstract: Used multivariate procedures to determine whether psychiatric patients who had made a suicide attempt immediately prior to hospitalization (N = 161) could be differentiated from nonsuicidal psychiatric patients (N = 161). Multivariate analysis of variance and cluster analysis failed to identify differences in the MMPI data of suicidal and nonsuicidal patients. In contrast, discriminant analysis produced a modest degree of differentiation that generally was maintained in the cross-validation.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*