Validation of a French questionnaire assessing knowledge of suicide.

Autor:	Wathelet M; Fédération Régionale de Recherche en Psychiatrie et Santé Mentale des Hauts-de-France, 59000 Lille, France; Centre National de Ressources et de Résilience Lille-Paris (CN2R), 59000 Lille, France; Department of Psychiatry, CHU de Lille, 59000 Lille, France., Dézétrée A; Sistel Service Interprofessional Health Service at Work Eure-et-Loire, 28000 Chartes, France., Pauwels N; Fédération Régionale de Recherche en Psychiatrie et Santé Mentale des Hauts-de-France, 59000 Lille, France; Papageno program, France., Vaiva G; Centre National de Ressources et de Résilience Lille-Paris (CN2R), 59000 Lille, France; Department of Psychiatry, CHU de Lille, 59000 Lille, France; University Lille, Inserm, CHU de Lille, U1172-LilNCog-Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, 59000 Lille, France; Group for the suicide study and prevention, France., Séguin M; University of Quebec at Outaouais, QC, Canada., Thomas P; Fédération Régionale de Recherche en Psychiatrie et Santé Mentale des Hauts-de-France, 59000 Lille, France; Department of Psychiatry, CHU de Lille, 59000 Lille, France; University Lille, Inserm, CHU de Lille, U1172-LilNCog-Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, 59000 Lille, France., Grandgenèvre P; Department of Psychiatry, CHU de Lille, 59000 Lille, France; Papageno program, France; University Lille, Inserm, CHU de Lille, U1172-LilNCog-Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, 59000 Lille, France., Notredame CÉ; Department of Psychiatry, CHU de Lille, 59000 Lille, France; Papageno program, France; University Lille, Inserm, CHU de Lille, U1172-LilNCog-Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, 59000 Lille, France; Group for the suicide study and prevention, France. Electronic address: charles-edouard.notredame@chu-lille.fr.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	L'Encephale [Encephale] 2024 Oct; Vol. 50 (5), pp. 497-503. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Nov 30.
DOI:	10.1016/j.encep.2023.08.016
Abstrakt:	Objectives: The objective of this study was to develop and validate the Knowledge of Suicide Scale (KSS), elaborated to assess adherence to myths about suicide. Methods: The KSS is a self-questionnaire including 22 statements relating to myths about suicide for which the respondent is asked to rate his degree of adherence on a scale ranging from 0 ("strongly disagree") to 10 ("completely agree"). Using the script concordance test scoring method, the respondents' scores were compared with those of experts to obtain, for each item, a score between 0 (maximum deviation with the experts) and 1 (minimum deviation with the experts). One thousand and thirty-five individuals (222 psychiatric interns, 332 medical interns in the first semester excluding psychiatry and 481 journalism students) were included. Results: According to the exploratory factor analysis, the KSS is a two-dimensional scale: the first subscale includes 15 items and the second seven items. The tool showed excellent face validity, correct convergent and divergent validities (multi-method multi-feature analyzes), and good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha coefficient between 0.66 and 0.83 for scales and subscales). The KSS is moderately and negatively correlated with the Stigma of Suicide Scale (r=-0.3). It significantly discriminates groups with different expected levels of knowledge regarding suicide (P<0.001). Conclusions: The KSS demonstrated good psychometric properties to measure adherence to myths about suicide. This tool could be useful in assessing the effectiveness of suicide prevention literacy improvement programs. (Copyright © 2023 L'Encéphale, Paris. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)
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