ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2011
An examination of the validity of retrospective measures of suicide attempts in youth.
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- Young adult follow-up of adolescent girls in juvenile justice using the Columbia suicide severity rating scale.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2014Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study used prospective data to investigate the validity of a retrospective measure of suicide attempts from four different perspectives.
methodsData were retrieved from 883 participants in the Raising Healthy Children project, a longitudinal study of youth recruited from a Pacific Northwest school district. The retrospective measure was collected when participants were 18-19 years of age and results were compared with measures of depressive symptoms collected prospectively.
resultsResults showed strong corroboration between retrospective reports of first suicide attempt and prospective measures of depression, with attempters experiencing significantly more depression than their nonattempting peers, t (df = 853) = 10.26, p < .001. In addition, within the attempter group, depression scores during the year of their reported first attempt were significantly higher than the average depression score across previous years, t (df = 67) = 3.01, p < .01.
conclusionsResults from this study suggest that the reports of older adolescents regarding their suicide attempts are corroborated by their prospective reports of depression in childhood and earlier adolescence. Thus, there is support that retrospective measures of suicidal behavior, namely suicide attempts, may be a valid method of assessment.
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