Prospective Development and Validation of the Computerized Adaptive Screen for Suicidal Youth.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The rate of suicide among adolescents is rising in the US, yet many adolescents at risk are unidentified and receive no mental health services.

Objective

To develop and independently validate a novel computerized adaptive screen for suicidal youth (CASSY) for use as a universal screen for suicide risk in medical emergency departments (EDs).

Design, setting, and participants

Study 1 of this prognostic study prospectively enrolled adolescent patients at 13 geographically diverse US EDs in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. They completed a baseline suicide risk survey and participated in 3-month telephone follow-ups. Using 3 fixed Ask Suicide-Screening Questions items as anchors and additional items that varied in number and content across

SUBMITTER: King CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7859874 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature