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Development and validation of Yatt Suicide Attitude Scale (YSAS) in Malaysia

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  • Norhayati Ibrahim
  • Normah Che Din
  • Noh Amit
  • Shazli Ezzat Ghazali
  • Aisyah Mohd Safien

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Introduction: Despite suicide rate becoming a growing trend in research locally and globally, there is no standard measuring instrument developed in Malaysia. The aim of this study is to establish the first ever Malay version of suicide screening tool that is suitable and fit with multiracial and complex culture of Malaysia. Methods: This study comprises of three phases, namely (1) items selection phase, (2) pilot study phase, and (3) scale validation phase. During the first phase, the items were selected from items pools which gathered from previous suicide ideation/ attitude scales. Then the pilot study was carried out to examine the items for Yatt Suicide Attitude Scale (YSAS). Lastly, the Yatt Suicide Attitude Scale (YSAS) validation study was conducted with 219 university students. Results: Initial version of YSAS comprised 16 items and three components. After factor analysis, the questionnaire was reduced into only two components (Suicide Ideation and Suicide Attempt) with 5 items each. Both of the components obtained high reliability value (.89 and.86 respectively) and the questionnaire accounted for 67.84% of the total variance. Conclusion: The analysis showed that YSAS has an acceptable reliability and validity for Malaysian population. Although these findings corroborate literature on development of suicide ideation assessment instrument for specific cultural context, there is a need to further examine its reliability with clinical population and general population of different cultural context in Malaysia.

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  • Norhayati Ibrahim & Normah Che Din & Noh Amit & Shazli Ezzat Ghazali & Aisyah Mohd Safien, 2019. "Development and validation of Yatt Suicide Attitude Scale (YSAS) in Malaysia," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(2), pages 1-14, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0209971
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209971
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    1. Amat, S. & Bakar, A. Y. A. & Sahid, S. & Mahmud, M. I. & Shah, K. M. & Karim, D. N. F. M., 2020. "Validation of Multicultural Counselling Competencies Scale among Malaysian Counsellor Trainees: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis," Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, Asian Online Journal Publishing Group, vol. 7(4), pages 373-379.

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