title: Suicide Risk Assessments: Which Suicide Risk Factors Psychiatric Residents Consider Significant?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Patients visiting the emergency department (ED) after a suicide attempt are generally assessed for suicide risk by psychiatric residents. Psychiatric residents' competence in evaluating the risk posed by the patients who attempted suicide is critical to preventing suicide.
  
  
  METHODS
  We investigated factors considered important by psychiatric residents when evaluating suicide risk. This study included 140 patients admitted to the ED after attempting suicide. Psychiatric residents rated patients' severity of current and future suicide risk as low/moderate/high using the Brief Emergency Room Suicide Risk Assessment (BESRA). The association between each BESRA variable and level of suicide risk was analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Many factors were commonly considered important in evaluating the severity of current and future suicide risk. However, the following factors were only associated with future suicide risk: female gender, having no religion, family psychiatric history, history of axis I disorders, having a will, harboring no regrets, and social isolation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychiatric residents use diverse factors when assessing suicide risk. Psychiatric residents might put more emphasis on non-modifiable demographic and clinical factors, concrete evidence showing suicide determination, and social isolation to assess the risk of future suicide.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sheng-Min
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Medical Science, Graduate School of The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sunyoung
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Uijeongbu, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Bora
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yeon
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Uijeongbu, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Kyoung Ho
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Uijeongbu, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Youngmin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Uijeongbu, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Hae-Kook
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Uijeongbu, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Yong-Sil
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Kweon
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Uijeongbu, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Chung Tai
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Uijeongbu, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Kyoung-Uk
authors.initials: KU
authors.lastname: Lee
keywords: Psychiatric residents; Risk assessment; Suicide