Estimating suicide risk among attempted suicides: I. The development of new clinical scales.
A discriminant function analysis was carried out to separate a sample of 75 suicides from a sample of 146 attempted suicides, on which comprehensive clinical and social data were recorded on an identical schedule. Two sets of discriminating items (with 18 and 6 variables) correctly classified 91 per cent and 83 per cent of the two samples in their respective groups. The results provide a basis for examining the usefulness of these variables as predictors of future suicide in people who have attempted suicide.
D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications; D012306:Risk; D013405:Suicide; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*