title: Identifying outpatients with entrenched suicidal ideation following hospitalization.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to identify outpatients who experience entrenched suicidal ideation following inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. Our findings suggest that the use of a suicidal ambivalence index score was helpful at discriminating those who reported significantly greater ratings of suicidal ideation across a 1-year period of time, whereas splitting patients based upon suicide attempt history yielded nonsignificant results. Similar findings resulted from a dimensional analytic approach, as well. Application of the suicidal ambivalence index may help administrators identify patients who require more intensive clinical services to resolve their suicidal ideation.
authors.affiliation: Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, Seattle, WA 98104, USA. oconnor7@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: Stephen S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: O'Connor
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Jobes
authors.forename: Katherine Anne
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Comtois
authors.forename: David C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Atkins
authors.forename: Karin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Janis
authors.forename: Chloe E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Chessen
authors.forename: Sara J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Landes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010045:Outpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D059020:Suicidal Ideation