UTILITY OF THE INVENTORY OF SUICIDE ORIENTATION-30 (ISO-30) FOR ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIC-INPATIENTS - LINKING CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING WITH OUTCOME EVALUATION

This report describes a study that integrates program evaluation with clinical practice. The subjects were 139 adolescent psychiatric inpati ents who were tested with the Inventory of Suicide Orientation-30 (ISO -30) at admission and retested six days after admission. Aggregate ana lyses showed statistically significant changes in the direction of dec reased suicidality on all ISO-30 indices. Further analyses compared th e data with normative data from the ISO-30 manual, and also evaluated the relationships between ISO-30 scores and length of stay. Implicatio ns of the results and also methods of integrating outcome with clinica l practice are discussed. (C) 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.