1. INCIDENT RATE PER 100,000 PER YEAR
This procedure computes a rate per 100,000 live people per year. The choices offered are a
suicide death or an attempt rate.
2. RATES THE LETHALITY OF SELF INJURY PLANNING
Guidelines are given to rate three aspects of self injury planning. These are planning,
preferred method, and prevention of rescue. Each is rated from zero to six, and the three
scores are summed to give a total. The higher the score the more severe the degree of injuries
to be expected.
3. CHECKLIST OF SIGNS FOR AN IMMINENT ACT OF SELF INJURY. One or more of these signs suggest the liklihood of action in the next 3 to 6 months.
4.GUIDELINES FOR A SUICIDE PREVENTION PLAN The items here will help to develop a plan which the user is more likely to follow because they become participants. The prevention steps should include personal notions of what may seem to deter a future self injury event.
5. BASERATE COMPUTATION is a method of estimating the expected number of suicidal deaths, and attempts over the next 12 months. This estimate uses known risk factors in a defined population such as a city, state, school, work place, etc. Factors used are age, gender, race, marital status,previous therapies, prior attempts to kill oneself, etc. Such expected incidents can provide a standard for judging the effectiveness of various prevention procedures. For example a specific prison may have 35 suicide attempts in one year, but the risk factors of the incarerated inmates might yield a number much higher, say 85. The difference would reflect effective efforts to reduce the experienced distress, availability of methods, and the intensity of the wish to die of the inmates at higher risk.