Columbia Protocol

Name: Columbia Protocol
Rating: 4.4 (12 reviews)
Author: PSS Chute Software

Medical

Free · Designed for iPad

12 Ratings
Ages

13+
Years
Category

Medical
Developer

PSS Chute Software
Language

EN
English
Size

7.4
MB

The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), the most evidence-supported tool of its kind, is a simple series of questions that anyone can use anywhere in the world to help prevent suicide. Disclaimer: If you are high risk, a further evaluation is indicated. For Low or Moderate answers, a mental health referral may be helpful or is provided. Thank you to the sponsors that helped make this a possibility: Blair County Department of Social Services Community Care Behavioral Health UPMC Healthy Blair County Coalition UPMC Altoona Foundation

Ratings & Reviews

4.4

out of 5

12 Ratings

Thank you
01/06/2021

SHall37
Thank you so much for this free app. I use this with my clients. It is an invaluable too.
Thank you
01/06/2021

SHall37

Thank you so much for this free app. I use this with my clients. It is an invaluable too.
Compatability
09/30/2022

Nick-64
We received the training related to the questions shown on this app. However, developers, including yours, always forget that some of us do not have smart phones, but may have an iPad instead. It is quite awkward to use this app when I have to turn my iPad to portrait mode. iPads work in landscape mode. It’s easier especially if a keyboard is attached. Please fix that lack of ability to rotate to landscape mode.It would also be nice to have a program available for the computer, or at least a website that mimics this app. Again, making it practical for everyone should be the goal. What happens if a teacher is confronted with a student who needs attention. No phone, no iPad, no way to follow through with appropriate questions.
Compatability
09/30/2022

Nick-64

We received the training related to the questions shown on this app. However, developers, including yours, always forget that some of us do not have smart phones, but may have an iPad instead. It is quite awkward to use this app when I have to turn my iPad to portrait mode. iPads work in landscape mode. It’s easier especially if a keyboard is attached. Please fix that lack of ability to rotate to landscape mode.It would also be nice to have a program available for the computer, or at least a website that mimics this app. Again, making it practical for everyone should be the goal. What happens if a teacher is confronted with a student who needs attention. No phone, no iPad, no way to follow through with appropriate questions.
Invalid and dangerous
08/08/2020

Pharphegnewghin
Many of the items in the app ask multiple questions (for which there may be different answers,) but then give only one yes/no option to respond. When that happens, the app is in essence collecting an answer from the user without knowing to which of the conflicting questions from that item the user was responding. An example: Q: “Have you thought about how you might do this... e.g. ‘I thought about taking an overdose but I never made a specific plan as to when or how I would do it... and would never go through with it.’” A: Yes/NoThis question asks 1) “have you ever thought about how you would do it,” but the example item posits two other questions, such as 2) did you have a specific plan, and 3) did you decide you would never go through with it; but allows the user to answer only once, “yes,” or “no.” If the user answers “no” because they didn’t decide they’d never go through with it, you’d get a false negative on that item. A false negative, or in this app the potential for MULTIPLE false negatives, is a bad (negligent) idea in a suicide screener. Not very well done.
Invalid and dangerous
08/08/2020

Pharphegnewghin

Many of the items in the app ask multiple questions (for which there may be different answers,) but then give only one yes/no option to respond. When that happens, the app is in essence collecting an answer from the user without knowing to which of the conflicting questions from that item the user was responding. An example: Q: “Have you thought about how you might do this... e.g. ‘I thought about taking an overdose but I never made a specific plan as to when or how I would do it... and would never go through with it.’” A: Yes/NoThis question asks 1) “have you ever thought about how you would do it,” but the example item posits two other questions, such as 2) did you have a specific plan, and 3) did you decide you would never go through with it; but allows the user to answer only once, “yes,” or “no.” If the user answers “no” because they didn’t decide they’d never go through with it, you’d get a false negative on that item. A false negative, or in this app the potential for MULTIPLE false negatives, is a bad (negligent) idea in a suicide screener. Not very well done.