TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - Relationship between hopelessness and ultimate suicide: a replication with psychiatric outpatients
JO  - American journal of psychiatry
A1  - Beck, Aaron T.
A1  - Brown, Gregory
A1  - Berchick, R. J.
A1  - Stewart, B. L.
A1  - Steer, R. A.
SP  - 190
EP  - 195
VL  - 147
IS  - 2
N2  - A prospective study of 1,958 outpatients found that hopelessness, as measured by the Beck Hopelessness Scale, was significantly related to eventual suicide. A scale cutoff score of 9 or above identified 16 (94.2%) of the 17 patients who eventually committed suicide, thus replicating a previous study with hospitalized patients. The high-risk group identified by this cutoff score was 11 times more likely to commit suicide than the rest of the outpatients. The Beck Hopelessness Scale thus may be used as a sensitive indicator of suicide potential.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0002-953X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -