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Table 3 Regression coefficients and uncorrected p-values for STS-2 individual items regressed onto reported history of SA

From: Construct development: The Suicide Trigger Scale (STS-2), a measure of a hypothesized suicide trigger state

STS-2 numbered items

Regression coefficient

p-value

33. Can stop thoughts that are troubling (reverse scored)

2.77

0.01

4. No exit

2.42

0.03

30. Doomed

2.02

0.01

36. No escape

1.96

0.02

28. Sense of dread

1.76

0.02

38. Think you will ever feel better (reverse)

1.69

0.03

9. Hard to stop worrying

1.57

0.01

13. Trouble falling asleep because of thoughts you cannot control

1.54

0.02

17. Expect the worst

1.49

0.07

34. Hope of change (reverse)

1.45

0.01

23. Think things will be normal again (reverse)

1.42

0.01

26. Trapped

1.39

0.02

35. Something horrible going to happen

1.20

0.05

12. Cannot concentrate or make decisions due to too many thoughts

1.05

0.05

32. Would like troubling thoughts to go away but they won't

1.05

0.07

16. Sudden panic-attack or physical symptoms

0.94

0.12

15. World feels different

0.71

0.14

1. Wake up tired and not refreshed

0.68

0.17

27. Feel blood rushing through veins

0.66

0.17

25. Helpless to change

0.64

0.23

14. World closing in

0.59

0.26

7. Ordinary things look strange or distorted

0.56

0.33

29. Ideas turning over and over, won't go away

0.55

0.35

10. Hopeless

0.41

0.43

20. Thoughts racing

0.33

0.50

6. Head could explode from too many thoughts

0.29

0.56

21. Have no control

0.19

0.69

8. Worry bad things might happen

0.19

0.72

2. Thoughts confused

-0.02

0.98

3. Many thoughts in head

-0.10

0.89

22. Bothered by thoughts that do not make sense

-0.11

0.82

31. Something wrong physically

-0.11

0.81

39. Headache from too many thoughts in head

-0.24

0.59

5. Unusual physical sensations

-0.46

0.32

19. Something happening to body

-0.62

0.15

37. Pressure in head from thinking too much

-0.87

0.11

18. Strange sensations in body or on skin

-0.92

0.07

24. Sensations you cannot describe

-1.14

0.06

11. Head or body parts changed in size or shape

-1.41

0.06