Utility of the inventory of suicide orientation-30 (ISO-30) for adolescent psychiatric inpatients: Linking clinical decision making with outcome evaluation

Abstract

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.

Efficacy of a problem‐solving intervention for the indicated prevention of suicidal risk in young Brazilians: Randomized controlled trial

“…To evaluate suicidal orientation, we used the ISO‐30 (King & Kowalchuk, , Brazilian version of Silva et al, in press), which is a self‐reported instrument with 30 items, with an internal consistency of 0.84. It was developed using two samples of adolescents in both clinical and school settings (King, & Kowalchuk, ), and it has been validated in clinical (King, & Kowalchuk, ; Osman et al, ; Piersma, & Boes, ) and community student samples (Casullo, ; King, & Kowalchuk, ; Liporace, & Casullo, ; Paniagua‐Suárez, González‐Posada, & Rueda‐Ramírez, ). ISO‐30 has adequate convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity (King, & Kowalchuk, ; Osman et al, ; Paniagua‐Suárez et al, ).…”