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Relationship Between Hopelessness and Ultimate Suicide: A Replication With Psychiatric Outpatients

ABSTRACT

A prospective study of 1,958 outpatients found that hopelessness, as measured by the Beck Hopelessness Scale, was significantly related to eventual suicide. A scale cutoff score of 9 or above identified 16 (94.2%) of the 17 patients who eventually committed suicide, thus replicating a previous study with hospitalized patients. The high-risk group identified by this cutoff score was 11 times more likely to commit suicide than the rest of the outpatients. The Beck Hopelessness Scale thus may be used as a sensitive indicator of suicide potential.

(Reprinted with permission from the American Journal of Psychiatry 1990; 147:190–195[Abstract/Free Full Text] )

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