Utility of the inventory of suicide orientation-30 (ISO-30) for adolescent psychiatric inpatients: Linking clinical decision making with outcome evaluation
✍ Scribed by Harry L. Piersma; Janna L. Boes
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 93 KB
- Volume
- 53
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
This report describes a study that integrates program evaluation with clinical practice. The subjects were 139 adolescent psychiatric inpatients who were tested with the Inventory of Suicide Orientation-30 (ISO-30) at admission and retested six days after admission. Aggregate analyses showed statistically significant changes in the direction of decreased suicidality on all ISO-30 indices. Further analyses compared the data with normative data from the ISO-30 manual, and also evaluated the relationships between ISO-30 scores and length of stay. Implications of the results and also methods of integrating outcome with clinical practice are discussed.