@article{ref1,
title="Models of suicide risk: nice persons",
journal="Crisis",
year="1990",
author="Motto, J. A. and Bostrom, Alan G.",
volume="11",
number="2",
pages="37-47",
abstract="The hypotheses are advanced that: (1) certain types of persons at risk for suicide represent identifiable clinical models, and (2) that such models provide relatively homogeneous samples from which specific high-risk indicators can be derived for clinical application to others who represent that model. Nine-hundred and eighty-six psychiatric inpatients representing the &quot;Nice Persons&quot; model, including 35 suicides, were randomly divided into an index and a validation set. Statistical analysis of the index set (N = 579), using a screening procedure followed by linear discriminant and linear logistic procedures, identified 11 high-risk indicators from 184 prospectively determined variables. When applied to the independent validation set (N = 407), the 11 indicators identified the suicides in that set with a sensitivity of 46% and specificity of 88%. Though not statistically significant, this level of efficiency is clinically of considerable potential value. Most importantly, the hypothesis is testable and is shown to deserve further development.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0227-5910",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}