title: Utility of the Inventory of Suicide Orientation-30 (ISO-30) for adolescent psychiatric inpatients: linking clinical decision making with outcome evaluation.
abstract: This report describes a study that integrates program evaluation with clinical practice. The subjects were 139 adolescent psychiatric inpatients who were tested with the Inventory of Suicide Orientation-30 (ISO-30) at admission and retested six days after admission. Aggregate analyses showed statistically significant changes in the direction of decreased suicidality on all ISO-30 indices. Further analyses compared the data with normative data from the ISO-30 manual, and also evaluated the relationships between ISO-30 scores and length of stay. Implications of the results and also methods of integrating outcome with clinical practice are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Pine Rest Mental Health Services, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Piersma
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Boes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D000298:Adolescent, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012494:Sampling Studies; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D000092864:Suicide Prevention