Can the Holmes-Rahe Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) Be Used as a Suicide Risk Scale? An Exploratory Study

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-28

  Blasco Fontecilla, Hilario ^a   Delgado Gomez, David ^b   Legido Gil, Teresa ^a   de Leon, Jose ^c   Perez Rodriguez, M Mercedes ^d   Baca Garcia, Enrique ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis; life events; suicide attempters

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 84856941332     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: 15436136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811118.2012.640616     Document Type: Article

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