Predicting suicidal ideation in primary care: An approach to identify easily assessable key variables.

Journal: General hospital psychiatry
Published Date: Jan 1, 2018

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To obtain predictors of suicidal ideation, which can also be used for an indirect assessment of suicidal ideation (SI). To create a classifier for SI based on variables of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) and sociodemographic variables, and to obtain an upper bound on the best possible performance of a predictor based on those variables.

Authors

  • Pascal Jordan
    Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and Schön Klinik Hamburg Eilbek, Hamburg, Germany; Psychological Methods, Faculty for Psychology and Human Movement Science, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: pascal.jordan@uni-hamburg.de.
  • Meike C Shedden-Mora
    Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and Schön Klinik Hamburg Eilbek, Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: m.shedden-mora@uke.de.
  • Bernd Löwe
    Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and Schön Klinik Hamburg Eilbek, Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: b.loewe@uke.de.

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