Citation

Barnes SM, Bahraini NH, Forster JE, Stearns-Yoder KA, Hostetter TA, Smith G, Nagamoto HT, Nock MK. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2016; 47(1): 67-77.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/sltb.12265

PMID

27387836

Abstract

Reliance on self-report limits clinicians' ability to accurately predict suicidal behavior. In this study the predictive validity of an objective measure, the death/suicide Implicit Association Test (d/sIAT), was tested among psychiatrically hospitalized veterans. Following acute stabilization, 176 participants completed the d/sIAT and traditional suicide risk assessments. Participants had similar d/sIAT scores regardless of whether they had recently attempted suicide. However, d/sIAT scores significantly predicted suicide attempts during the 6-month follow-up above and beyond other known risk factors for suicidal behavior (OR = 1.89; 95% CI: 1.15-3.12; based on 1SD increase). The d/sIAT may augment the accuracy of suicide risk assessment.

Published 2016. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.

Language: en