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A Review of Suicide Risk Assessment Tools and Their Measured Psychometric Properties in Korea

While there has been a slew of review studies on suicide measurement tools until now, there were not any reviews focusing on suicide assessment tools available in Korea. This review aimed to examine the psychometric properties of tools developed in Korea or the translated versions from the original...

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Autores principales: Baek, In-Chul, Jo, Soobin, Kim, Eun Ji, Lee, Ga Ryoung, Lee, Dong Hun, Jeon, Hong Jin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8258346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34239463
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.679779
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author Baek, In-Chul
Jo, Soobin
Kim, Eun Ji
Lee, Ga Ryoung
Lee, Dong Hun
Jeon, Hong Jin
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Jo, Soobin
Kim, Eun Ji
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Lee, Dong Hun
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description While there has been a slew of review studies on suicide measurement tools until now, there were not any reviews focusing on suicide assessment tools available in Korea. This review aimed to examine the psychometric properties of tools developed in Korea or the translated versions from the original tools in their foreign language and to identify potential improvements and supplements for these tools. A literature search was done using the Korean academic information search service, Research Information Service System, to identify the suicide measures to be included in this review. Abstracts were screened to identify which measures were used to assess suicide-related factors. Based on the established inclusion and exclusion criteria, 18 tools remained and we assessed their psychometric properties. The current review indicated several major findings. First, many of the tools did not report predictive validity and even those with predictive validity were based on past suicide attempts. Second, some of the tools overlooked the interactive component for the cause of suicide. In addition, information to supplement the self-reported and clinician-administered reports by collecting reports from the subjects' families and acquaintances is needed. It is also important to develop a screening tool that examines other aspects of an individual's personal life, including unemployment, bereavement, divorce, and childhood trauma. Moreover, tools that have been studied in more diverse groups of the population are needed to increase external validity. Finally, the linguistic translation of the tools into Korean needs to consider other cultural, social, and psychological factors of the sample of interest.
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spelling pubmed-82583462021-07-07 A Review of Suicide Risk Assessment Tools and Their Measured Psychometric Properties in Korea Baek, In-Chul Jo, Soobin Kim, Eun Ji Lee, Ga Ryoung Lee, Dong Hun Jeon, Hong Jin Front Psychiatry Psychiatry While there has been a slew of review studies on suicide measurement tools until now, there were not any reviews focusing on suicide assessment tools available in Korea. This review aimed to examine the psychometric properties of tools developed in Korea or the translated versions from the original tools in their foreign language and to identify potential improvements and supplements for these tools. A literature search was done using the Korean academic information search service, Research Information Service System, to identify the suicide measures to be included in this review. Abstracts were screened to identify which measures were used to assess suicide-related factors. Based on the established inclusion and exclusion criteria, 18 tools remained and we assessed their psychometric properties. The current review indicated several major findings. First, many of the tools did not report predictive validity and even those with predictive validity were based on past suicide attempts. Second, some of the tools overlooked the interactive component for the cause of suicide. In addition, information to supplement the self-reported and clinician-administered reports by collecting reports from the subjects' families and acquaintances is needed. It is also important to develop a screening tool that examines other aspects of an individual's personal life, including unemployment, bereavement, divorce, and childhood trauma. Moreover, tools that have been studied in more diverse groups of the population are needed to increase external validity. Finally, the linguistic translation of the tools into Korean needs to consider other cultural, social, and psychological factors of the sample of interest. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8258346/ /pubmed/34239463 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.679779 Text en Copyright © 2021 Baek, Jo, Kim, Lee, Lee and Jeon. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Baek, In-Chul
Jo, Soobin
Kim, Eun Ji
Lee, Ga Ryoung
Lee, Dong Hun
Jeon, Hong Jin
A Review of Suicide Risk Assessment Tools and Their Measured Psychometric Properties in Korea
title A Review of Suicide Risk Assessment Tools and Their Measured Psychometric Properties in Korea
title_full A Review of Suicide Risk Assessment Tools and Their Measured Psychometric Properties in Korea
title_fullStr A Review of Suicide Risk Assessment Tools and Their Measured Psychometric Properties in Korea
title_full_unstemmed A Review of Suicide Risk Assessment Tools and Their Measured Psychometric Properties in Korea
title_short A Review of Suicide Risk Assessment Tools and Their Measured Psychometric Properties in Korea
title_sort review of suicide risk assessment tools and their measured psychometric properties in korea
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8258346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34239463
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.679779
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