Robert J Cramer, Shannon M Cain, Sasha Zabelski, Vojna Tapola, Anna-Lotta Lappalainen, Katariina Keinonen
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The Finnish Suicide Competency Assessment Form among mental health providers.
The Suicide Competency Assessment Form-Revised (SCAF-R) has only been used in English-speaking samples. The present study tested psychometric properties of the Finnish Version (SCAF-FV), a translated version of the original instrument. Finnish mental health providers and trainees (N = 101) completed an online survey assessing demographics, suicide prevention competencies, social desirability, and responses to a brief vignette. Confirmatory factor analyses supported a single-factor SCAF-FV structure with high internal consistency. Supporting its validity, the SCAF-FV showed a significant association with years of clinical experience, and was unrelated to socially desirable responding. However, the SCAF-FV was unrelated to suicide knowledge and did not predict provider decisions about a mock patient.
期刊介绍:
Now published ten times each year, this acclaimed journal provides refereed papers on significant research, scholarship, and practical approaches in the fast growing areas of bereavement and loss, grief therapy, death attitudes, suicide, and death education. It provides an international interdisciplinary forum in which a variety of professionals share results of research and practice, with the aim of better understanding the human encounter with death and assisting those who work with the dying and their families.