Psychometric Properties of the Bangla Brief Suicide Cognitions Scale among University Level Students

Objectives. Assessment of suicide cognition would help to measure the enduring suicide risk and to predict the risk of a suicide attempt. However, no previous attempt was identified to validate the suicide cognition scale in Bangla. We aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the Brief Suicide Cognitions Scale (BSCS) in Bangla. Methods. We conducted this validation study among 529 medical and university students. We collected the responses by Google Forms with the translated version of BSCS from 20 August to 20 October 2022. We assessed internal consistency form of reliability, face validity, content validity, construct validity, concurrent validity, and discriminant validity. Results. The mean age of the respondents was <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M1"> <a:mn>23.32</a:mn> <a:mo>±</a:mo> <a:mn>1.73</a:mn> </a:math> years; 52.5% were…