CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 131Suicide and Self-Harm StudiesHealth Education and ValidationAnxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 32 of the 32 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Validation of the ask suicide-screening questions (ASQ) with youth in outpatient specialty and primary care clinics

Open access
Aguinaldo, Laika D., Sullivant, Shayla, Lanzillo, Elizabeth C., Ross, Abigail, He, Jian-Ping, Bradley-Ewing, Andrea, Bridge, Jeffrey A., Horowitz, Lisa M., Wharff, Elizabeth A.·2021·General Hospital Psychiatry
DOI 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2020.11.006PMC PMC7855604
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Objective Validate the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) with youth in outpatient specialty and primary care clinics.Method This is a cross sectional instrument validation study assessing the validity of the ASQ with respect to the standard criterion, Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire (SIQ/SIQ Jr.). The sample included 515 English speaking youth ages 10-21 years old from outpatient specialty and primary care clinics. ASQ sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values (PPV/NPV), positive and negative likelihood ratios, c statistic and respective receiver operating characteristic curves were assessed.Results A total of 335 outpatient specialty and 180 primary care clinic participants completed the study. In outpatient specialty clinics, the ASQ showed a sensitivity of 100.0% (95% CI: 80.5-100.0%), specificity of 91.2% (95% CI: 87.5-94.1%), and NPV of 100.0% (95% CI: 98.7-100.0). In the primary care clinic, the ASQ showed a sensitivity of 100.0% (95% CI: 59.0-100.0%), specificity of 87.9% (95% CI: 82.0-92.3%), and NPV of 100.0% (95% CI: 97.7-100.0). Forty-five (13.4%) outpatient specialty clinic participants and 28 (15.6%) primary care clinic participants screened positive for suicide risk on the ASQ.Conclusions The ASQ is a valid screening tool for identifying youth at elevated suicide risk in outpatient clinical settings.

Overview

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2020.11.006

Cites

32 of 32 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Verification

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Citations

Cites

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. Posner, 2011, The Columbia-suicide severity rating scale: initial validity and internal consistency findings from three multisite studies with adolescents and adults, Am J Psychiatry, 168, 1266, 10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.10111704 · DOI · Paper page

Cited by

Sorted by citations

See all 131

Related

See all

Metadata

Authors
Aguinaldo, L. D., Sullivant, S., Lanzillo, E. C., Ross, A., He, J.-P., Bradley-Ewing, A., Bridge, J. A., Horowitz, L. M., & Wharff, E. A.
Affiliations
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (US)
  • Fordham University (US)
  • Nationwide Children's Hospital (US)
  • Boston Children's Hospital (US)
Corresponding author
Aguinaldo, Laika D.
ORCID
Venue
General Hospital Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-01
Volume
68
Pages
52-58
ISSN
0163-8343 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2020.11.006
PMC
PMC7855604
OpenAlex
W3098920508
Cited by
131
References
32
Citations by year
2026: 18 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 11
FWCI
5.40
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • General Hospital Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Research and Theory › Health Education and Validation
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
Ask Suicide-Screening Questions, suicide risk screening, youth suicide risk, suicidal ideation, screening tool validation, sensitivity and specificity, primary care, adolescents and young adults
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Child, Cross-Sectional Studies, Humans, Mass Screening, Outpatients, Primary Health Care, Surveys and Questionnaires, Suicide, Young Adult

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review