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To determine whether hopelessness assessed by the Beck Hopelessness Scale predicts eventual suicide in psychiatric outpatients, replicating earlier findings in hospitalized cohorts.

February 1, 1990American Journal of Psychiatry

Relationship between hopelessness and ultimate suicide: a replication with psychiatric outpatients

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To determine whether hopelessness assessed by the Beck Hopelessness Scale predicts eventual suicide in psychiatric outpatients, replicating earlier findings in hospitalized cohorts.
Prospective cohort study evaluating 1,958 psychiatric outpatients (N=1,958).
Hopelessness was assessed at baseline using the Beck Hopelessness Scale, with patients monitored longitudinally for eventual suicide.
A Beck Hopelessness Scale cutoff score ≥9 identified 16 of the 17 patients (94.2%) who died by suicide.
Outpatients scoring at or above the cutoff of 9 were 11 times more likely to commit suicide than outpatients scoring below this threshold.

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Prospective study demonstrates Beck Hopelessness Scale scores predict eventual suicide in psychiatric outpatients, highlighting its utility as a sensitive clinical risk screening tool.

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Beck et al. (1990) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a099267b0d552aa8b45c53c https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.2.190

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Prospective study demonstrates Beck Hopelessness Scale scores predict eventual suicide in psychiatric outpatients, highlighting its utility as a sensitive clinical risk screening tool.

Relationship between hopelessness and ultimate suicide: a replication with psychiatric outpatients

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Relationship between hopelessness and ultimate suicide: a replication with psychiatric outpatients

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