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. 2025 Mar 31:16:1437439.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1437439. eCollection 2025.

Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Suicidal Ideation Attributes Scale among Iranian college students

Fatemeh Nazari  1 , Amir Sam Kianimoghadam  1 , Pardis Jamshidmofid  1 , Mohammad Reza Norouzi  1
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Psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Suicidal Ideation Attributes Scale among Iranian college students

Fatemeh Nazari et al. Front Psychiatry. .

Abstract

Background: Suicidality is a major global health problem and the second leading reason of mortality in 15-29-year-olds, and a growing subgroup of these youths are students. The present study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Suicidal Ideation Attributes Scale (SIDAS) among Iranian college students.

Method: A total of 398 Iranian college students completed study measures online. The Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation, Beck Hopelessness Scale, and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale were chosen for evaluating concurrent and divergent validities. The content validity index (CVI) index was calculated in order to check the face validity and content validity. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed to confirm the factors of the SIDAS. Finally, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were constructed to assess scale sensitivity and specificity.

Results: According to the findings, 286 (71.9%) of the participants were women. The average age of the sample was 23.9 years. According to this study, the Persian version of the SIDAS (SIDAS-P) demonstrated high internal consistency (a = 0.799), a unifactorial structure, a moderate correlation with the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSSI), and a negative moderate divergent validity with the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. Furthermore, the ROC curve analysis [area under the curve (AUC) = 0.909] indicated that the SIDAS-P could distinguish individuals with a high risk for suicidal behaviors (scores higher than 6.5 on the SIDAS are above the low risk for suicide).

Conclusion: The findings support that the SIDAS is a valid and reliable online instrument for screening suicidal ideations in a population of non-clinical college students in Iran. To establish its clinical utility, further research should test its psychometric properties in clinical populations with different mental health problems.

Keywords: Iran; college students; reliability; suicide; validity.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Confirmatory factor analysis of SIDAS. SIDAS, Suicidal Ideation Attributes Scale.
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Predictive power of the SIDAS. SIDAS, Suicidal Ideation Attributes Scale.
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