Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale.

C-SSRS

What it measures

Severity and intensity of suicidal ideation (5 levels) and suicidal behaviour (actual/aborted/interrupted attempts, preparatory acts); lethality

Length and format

6 core ideation items + behaviour subscale (semi-structured). yes/no presence + ordinal severity/intensity; recall windows vary (lifetime, since-last-visit) (clinician-rated/interview)

Language versions

100+ country-specific language versions; a global public-health standard

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Posner, K., et al. (2011). The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale: initial validity and internal consistency findings from three multisite studies with adolescents and adults. American Journal of Psychiatry, 168(12), 1266-1277.