@article{ref1,
title="Development of a suicide screening instrument for use in a remand centre setting",
journal="Canadian journal of psychiatry, The",
year="1988",
author="Arboleda-Flórez, Julio and Holley, H. L.",
volume="33",
number="7",
pages="595-598",
abstract="In penal settings it is important to be able to quickly discriminate which kinds of self-destructive behaviours carry a larger suicide potential and which inmates present a greater suicide risk. This paper is a preliminary report of the first phase of a suicide research project conducted at the Calgary Remand Centre, Calgary, Alberta which has entailed the development of a tool for screening potentially suicidal inmates. The Suicide Checklist was designed for use by the nursing staff of the Centre to provide a screening process which would be: (a) reliable; (b) valid (within the broad constraints and difficulties inherent in any attempt to predict dangerousness to self); (c) standardized; (d) quick and feasible to implement; and (e) a combination of clinical and past history variables. This paper identifies some of the issues which have surrounded the development of this tool and presents findings from an initial reliability study.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0706-7437",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}