SBQ-R

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The Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire - Revised (SBQ-R) is a questionnaire to record suicidal behavior. It is a self-report questionnaire to determine risk factors for suicide. The questionnaire is used for people between the ages of 13 and 18. It comprises only four questions that the children and young people can answer in around five minutes.

There are some studies that have classified the SBQ-R as functional and reliable. In contrast to some other questionnaires that are used to assess suicidality, the SBQ-R contains questions that not only illuminate the respondent's past, but also ask questions about the future, as well as those that deal with the present. This works far better in suicide prevention than just questions dealing with the past.

Each of the four questions addresses a specific risk factor:

  • The first question assesses whether thoughts of suicide have ever been present or suicide attempts have been presented.
  • The second question assesses the frequency of suicidal ideation over the past 12 months.
  • The third question concerns the threat level of suicide attempts
  • The fourth question evaluates the self-reported probability of a suicide attempt in the future.

Each question has an individual scale and the answers are assigned certain point values. The test assumes that only one answer option per question is ticked. The total score of the evaluated test can vary between 3 and 18 points. The higher the score, the higher the likelihood of suicidal behavior.

Questionnaire development

The questionnaire is based on the original 34-question SBQ developed by Marsha M. Linean . Linehan developed a short form consisting of four questions. This was then revised by Osman and colleagues in 2001 and examined psychometrically, whereby the four questions remained identical and only the answer format changed. There is a German translation of the questionnaire with sufficiently good internal consistency .

literature

  • Augustine Osman et al .: The Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised (SBQ-R): Validation with Clinical and Nonclinical Samples. In: Assessement. Volume 8, No. 4, 2001, pp. 443–454, full text (PDF)
  • German translation of the questionnaire as a limited preview on Google Books [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thomas Forkmann, Tobias Teismann, Heide Glaesmer: diagnosis of suicidality . Hogrefe Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8444-2639-7 , pp. 115 ( google.de [accessed on July 13, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Victor Blüml, Nestor D. Kapusta, Stephan Doering, Elmar Brähler, Birgit Wagner: Personality Factors and Suicide Risk in a Representative Sample of the German General Population . In: PLoS ONE . tape 8 , no. 10 , October 4, 2013, doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0076646 , PMC 3790756 (free full text).
  3. ↑ Thomas Forkmann, Elmar Brähler, Siegfried Gauggel, Heide Glaesmer: Prevalence of suicidal ideation and related risk factors in the German general population . In: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease . tape 200 , no. 5 , May 2012, p. 401-405 , doi : 10.1097 / NMD.0b013e31825322cf , PMID 22551793 .