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Estimating Suicide Risk among Attempted Suicides: I. the Development of New Clinical Scales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. J. Pallis ,
A. B. Levey ,
J. S. Jenkins ,
P. Sainsbury  and
B. M. Barraclough
D. J. Pallis
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Clinical Psychiatry Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex, P019 4FQ
A. B. Levey
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Clinical Psychiatry Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex, P019 4FQ
J. S. Jenkins
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Clinical Psychiatry Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex, P019 4FQ
P. Sainsbury
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Clinical Psychiatry Unit, Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex, P019 4FQ
B. M. Barraclough
Affiliation:
University of Southampton
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Summary

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.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 141 , Issue 1 , July 1982 , pp. 37 - 44
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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