Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of the single items of the BSS-NL.

Single item content	Category			Mean (SD)	Cronbach α	R rest
	0	1	2
1. Wish to live	242	195	68	0.66 (0.79)	0.94	.67
2. Wish to die	199	196	110	0.82 (0.70)	0.93	.74
3. Reasons living/dying	278	157	70	0.59 (0.84)	0.93	.69
4. Desire to kill oneself	246	171	88	0.69 (0.76)	0.93	.80
5. Passive suicidal desire	248	174	83	0.67 (0.77)	0.93	.63
6. Duration of suicide ideation	319	113	73	0.51 (0.90)	0.93	.76
7. Frequency of thinking about suicide	310	160	35	0.46 (0.96)	0.93	.80
8. Acceptance of idea of suicide	285	153	67	0.57 (0.85)	0.93	.73
9. Control over suicide action	344	140	21	0.36 (1.08)	0.93	.68
10. Reasons for not committing suicide	314	138	53	0.48 (0.93)	0.93	.70
11. Reasons for wanting to commit suicide	223	47	235	1.02 (0.67)	0.93	.48
12. Specific plan to commit suicide	318	118	69	0.51 (0.91)	0.93	.71
13. Access to suicide method	335	31	139	0.61 (0.82)	0.93	.60
14. Courage/ability to commit suicide	279	152	74	0.59 (0.83)	0.93	.74
15. Expectation to commit suicide	318	153	34	0.44 (0.98)	0.93	.76
16. Preparations for suicide	391	89	25	0.28 (1.19)	0.93	.63
17. Writing of suicide note	394	72	39	0.30 (1.16)	0.93	.49
18. Final acts in anticipation of death	354	106	45	0.39 (1.04)	0.93	.37
19. Conceal ideation	308	123	74	0.54 (0.88)	0.93	.47