Citation

Waters BG, Sendbuehler JM, Kincel RL, Boodoosingh LA, Marchenko I. Can. J. Psychiatry 1982; 27(8): 663-667.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1982, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Publisher SAGE Publications)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7159869

Abstract

The MMPI profiles of forty suicidal and forty non-suicidal male and female depressed patients, matched for age, were compared. Significant differences between MMPI scale T scores which showed some sex specificity were found between the suicidal and non-suicidal depressives. These results replicate previous findings. However neither individual scale T scores, derived discriminant functions, nor actuarial or cluster analysis-derived MMPI profiles could completely discriminate between suicidal and non-suicidal depressed inpatients of either sex. The relevance and implications of these findings to the ascertainment of suicidal risk are discussed.

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