%0 Journal Article
%T Utility of a time frame in assessing psychological pain and suicide ideation
%A Esther L. Meerwijk
%A Sandra J. Weiss
%J Archive of "PeerJ".
%D 2017
%R 10.7717/peerj.3491
%X Assessing psychological pain has been recommended as an integral part of a comprehensive suicide risk assessment. The Psychache Scale, an established measure of psychological pain, does not specify a time frame for when pain is experienced, which may inadvertently increase the likelihood of identifying individuals as being at elevated suicide risk when they complete the Psychache Scale based on psychological pain experienced at some undefined time in the past
%K Psychological pain
%K Psychache
%K Mental pain
%K Suicide
%K Psychometrics
%K Specificity
%K Positive predictive value
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5483035/