- A brief interview covering past self-inflicted injuries and categorizes them into suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injury. 
- Creates counts of self-inflicted injuries by method, medical risk severity, and lethality. 
- Has a Lifetime form and a Recent form which covers a specific assessment period 
- At the baseline of this study, the Lifetime and Recent version (for past year) were conducted 


Saint Louis University

- Scale for Suicide Ideation-Current
- Suicide Attempt Self-Injury Count 
- Structured Clinical Interview for DSM–IV Axis II Border-line Personality Disorder
- University of Washington Risk Assessment Protocol


Measures Utilized 

The intentional destruction of one’s own body tissue without suicidal intent (ex. cutting, burning, or hitting oneself). Around 4–6% of the general population are estimated to have engaged in NSSI in their lifetime

Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

Fruhbauerova, M., DeCou, C. R., Crow, B. E., & Comtois, K. A. (2021). Borderline personality disorder and self-directed violence in a sample of suicidal army soldiers. Psychological Services, 18(1), 104–115. https://doi.org/10.1037/ser0000369

Borderline Personality Disorder and Self-Directed Violence in a Sample of Suicidal Army Soldiers 

- An interviewer-administered scale which measures a patient’s suicidal ideation at its worst point in the past 2 weeks
- Was used at the study’s screening to determine level of suicidal ideation criterion for inclusion in the study and as a baseline assessment


Scale for Suicide Ideation-Current

Suicide Attempt Self-Injury Count 

- Used to identify patients with BPD given the suicide risk associated with this disorder
- The presence-absence of BPD diagnosis, and the number of symptoms were derived from the SCID and included in this study


Structured Clinical Interview for DSM–IV Axis II Border-line Personality Disorder

- Utilized to determine the participant’s stress level and suicidal intent before and after the research interview and suicide risk
- Guides the assessor to appropriate responses for different levels of suicide risk

University of Washington Risk Assessment Protocol

When NSSI behavior occurs on five or more occasions on five different days in a given year, for the purpose of emotion regulation or the resolution of one’s interpersonal difficulties and cause clinically significant distress and/or impairment.

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