Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale.
C-SSRS
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)
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- 100+ country-specific language versions; a global public-health standard
- 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.
Also catalogued under
The same instrument filed in another domain of this catalogue.
- C-SSRS - Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale
Variable (ideation severity 1-5, intensity sub-items, behavior and lethality subscales); screener and full versions. copyrighted - author permission.
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