@article{ref1,
title="Prediction of eventual suicide in psychiatric inpatients by clinical ratings of hopelessness",
journal="Journal of consulting and clinical psychology",
year="1989",
author="Beck, Aaron T. and Brown, Gregory and Steer, R. A.",
volume="57",
number="2",
pages="309-310",
abstract="A 9-point clinical rating scale was used to assess the severity of hopelessness in 141 patients hospitalized with suicidal ideation. The patients were followed from 5 to 10 years, and 10 (7.1%) eventually committed suicide. The mean hopelessness rating for the patients committing suicide was significantly higher than that for the patients not committing suicide. A cutoff score of 6 or above successfully predicted 9 (90.0%) of those committing suicide. The results supported previous findings in which self-reported hopelessness on the Beck Hopelessness Scale was reported to predict suicide in both psychiatric outpatients and inpatients.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-006X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}