The CSS comprises 35 items related to the ability to keep track of one's thoughts with reporting of speech deficits and/or confused thinking (Miers & Raulin, [ 9]).
This research has a limitation because measures of cognitive coping rely on observations and reports of thoughts or attempts to change thoughts rather than on overt behaviours.
(3) Suicide Intent Scale (SIS [ 39]: SIS is a 20-item semi-structured instrument designed to record information concerning a suicidal individual's desire to die by inquiring into circumstances and patient's reports of thoughts and feelings at the time of SB.
In this study, a scale composed of the first 15 SIS items was used to rate the intensity of suicidal intent in terms of the circumstances and patient's reports of thoughts and feelings at the time of the attempt, and scales of Items 19 and 20 were used to rate the ingestion of alcohol and other drugs at the time of the suicide attempt, respectively.
Similarly, the rates of those reporting thoughts of death or suicidal ideation (i.e. a score of 2 or more versus 1 or below) was also significantly different across the diagnostic groups [χ 3, 494) = 13.4, p < .01], with the depression group having approximately twice the rate of reporting the more serious symptoms compared to the remaining three diagnostic groups.
Over 40% of adolescents receiving emergency crisis services reported thoughts of suicide accompanied by thoughts of NSSI in the past 24 hours [ 27].
For example, Ericsson and Simon find that think-aloud and retrospective reports of thought processes correlate with predicted patterns of eye movement and response latency.
Tumbat and Belk, reporting the thoughts of a Mount Everest guide, provide an illustration of this point of view: "If you could put another route up Everest and say this is the tourist route, and you say you guys go along there and take as long as you want and stop and have chocolate bars and stop and have cups of coffee, great, but it isn't like that.
When they were assessed at time 2, the incidence of self-harming thoughts was 9.1% (n = 290) with more girls (11.2%) than boys (7.2%) (OR = 1.61, 95% CI 1.26-2.06) reporthoughtsughts of self-harm.
Marazziti et al [ 33] explain that patients with unexplained pain have a higher likelihood of reporting catastrophic thoughts and they tend to think that the origin of their pain is a mystery; they feel that they have lost control and that their physician does not believe their pain to be real.
