An Indicator That the Suicidal Patient Is Exercising Suicide Self-Restraint

question 4

Multiple Choice

An indicator that the suicidal patient is exercising suicide self-restraint is:

• A) adherence to antidepressant therapy.
• B) agreeing to sign a no-suicide contract.
• C) disclosing a plan for suicide to staff.
• D) expressing feelings of hopelessness to the nurse.

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Definitions:

Distribution

The process by which goods are transported and delivered from a supplier to end consumer, or the statistical arrangement of values within a dataset.

Skewed

A description of a distribution that is not symmetrical, typically with a longer tail on one side of the peak than the other.

Outliers

In statistics, outliers are data points that differ significantly from other observations, potentially indicating experimental error or variability.

IQR

The Interquartile Range, a measure of statistical dispersion being the difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles.