How do healthcare professionals interview patients to assess suicide risk?

Rose McCabeImren SternoStefan PriebeRebecca BarnesRichard Byng

Published in: BMC psychiatry (2017)

Psychiatrists tend to ask patients to confirm they are not suicidal using negative questions. Negatively phrased questions bias patients' responses towards reporting no suicidal ideation.

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