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Abstract
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OBJECTIVE: To examine the utility of the Rorschach Comprehensive System's Suicide Constellation (S-CON; Exner, 1993) for suicide risk assessment in depressed women.
METHOD: Assessment by using Rorschach was performed in outpatients department and psychiatric hospital. The outpatients sample consisted of 45 women (the average age 51.98, SD = 14.58, range 22-78 years), inpatients sample consisted of 30 women (the average age 42.77, SD = 15.46, range 18-76 years). Clinical diagnosis of the depressive episode, recurrent depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder and mixed anxiety and depressive disorder were diagnosed by a psychiatrist. The suicide risk was evaluated asking about current suicidal thoughts, plans, and suicide attempts in the past as it is formulated in CIDI-2.1.
RESULTS: 31.1% of outpatients sample and 13.3% of inpatients sample had current suicidal thought or plans but had no suicidal attempts in the past. 17.8% of outpatients sample and 43.3% of inpatients sample had current suicidal thought, plans and suicidal attempts in the past. No relation was found between S-CON and suicidal thought, plans or attempts. S-CON was positive for 3 patients in outpatients group (2 of them did not report suicidal thought, plans or attempts) and for 1 patient in inpatients group. No correlation was found between S-CON scores and verbally evaluated risk of suicide.
CONCLUSION: These findings did not confirm the utility of Rorschach Suicide Constellation for suicide risk evaluations in depressed women.
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