Abstract
Two suicidal groups receiving mental health treatment, 46 clients who had called a suicide and crisis service and 29 clients who were not known to the service and represented a sample of the greater suicidal population-at-risk, were compared on selected demographic and clinical information located in their psychiatric folders. Three scales, the Suicide Death Prediction Scale, the Suicide Prevention Center Assessment of Suicide Potential Scale, and the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, were applied retrospectively to this information. The results indicated that the two groups did not differ demographically, but callers had significantly lower scores on both the Social Readjustment Rating Scale and the Suicide Potential Scale. Also, significantly fewer callers received psychiatric hospitalization. The findings suggest that the callers represented a sample of somewhat lower suicide risk.
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