Abstract
Assessment of self-repport suicidal ideation severity in 8 to 12 years old school children. The aim of this study is to assess the severity of self-report child suicidal ideation.The Children's Depression Inventory was administered to random sample of 361 school children aged 8 to 12 years-old. A month later, the persistence of death desires was reassessed by using the Children's Depression Rating Scale-Revised. The severity of child suicidal ideation was evaluated and related to affective symptomatology and to the intellectual knowledge of death. The results shown that the persistence of suicidal was associated with a higher depressive simptomatology.
