The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) - Service correctionnel du Canada
The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) - Service correctionnel du Canada
The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) - Service correctionnel du Canada
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eception. Similar to the <strong>BSI</strong>, a T-score at or above 65 was chosen as the cut off for screening<br />
purposes but the table also presents the percentage of offenders who scored at or above a T-<br />
score of 60. <strong>The</strong>se T-scores are based on the norms provided in the DHS manual that are<br />
derived from results of administrations to federal offenders. As indicated in Table 10, the<br />
rates of reporting significant symptoms of depression on the DHS are somewhat lower than<br />
the rates of depression assessed on the Depression subscale of the <strong>BSI</strong>. This may be <strong>du</strong>e to<br />
the population from which the norms for each measure were drawn since we have previously<br />
reported that the rates of anxiety and depression are higher in the federal offender population<br />
than in a non-patient, non-offender population. On the suicide screening component of the<br />
DHS, using decision rules outlined by the authors, roughly 3% of offenders should be<br />
provided with further assessment because they endorsed at least one of the three current<br />
suicide ideation indicators (Mills & Kroner, 2005). <strong>The</strong> table also indicates that over 20% of<br />
the population endorses at least one item on the historical suicide indicator scale. Table 11<br />
presents the results of the DHS broken down by Aboriginal status. Aboriginal offenders do<br />
not appear to be significantly more depressed than non Aboriginals (t (927) = 0.60, p = .552),<br />
and they have roughly similar rates of endorsement of current suicide ideation items (χ 2 (2) =<br />
3.39, p = .184).<br />
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