Instruments to assess suicide risk: a systematic review.
Ezequiel T AndreottiJaqueline R IpuchimaSilvio César CazellaPedro BeriaCristiane Flôres BortoncelloRichard Chuquel SilveiraYgor Arzeno FerrãoPublished in: Trends in psychiatry and psychotherapy (2021)
Even though the two scales (BSI and C-SSRS) are the most frequently mentioned and used by healthcare professionals to assess suicide risk, both instruments present breaches in their structure and there is not yet a single instrument considered to be the gold standard. As a future perspective, there is the urgency of developing a new tool that can widely and completely assess all psychopathological aspects of suicidality.