title: Classification of suicidal and nonsuicidal outpatients: a cluster-analytic approach.
abstract: The revised Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Hopelessness Scale (BHS), Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI) were administered to 1,172 outpatients diagnosed with mixed psychiatric disorders. The SSI then was used to classify the patients into 127 (10.8%) suicide ideators and 1,045 (89.2%) nonideators. Both agglomerative-hierarchical and nonhierarchical cluster analyses then were employed to identify three types of nonideators, who represented anxious depressed, hopeless depressed, and below-average overall symptomatology, and four types of ideators, who reflected hopeless, anxious depressed, severely suicidal, and below-average overall symptomatology. Implications of these classification systems for describing psychopathology were discussed.
authors.affiliation: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine, Camden.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Steer
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: G K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Beck
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012737:Sex Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data