Research Article Psychometric Properties of the Bangla Brief Suicide Cognitions Scale among University Level Students S. M. Yasir Arafat , 1 Fahad Hussain, 2 Rizwana Amin, 3 Vikas Menon, 4 Md Khayrul Islam, 5 A. S. M. Redwan, 6 and Md Abdullah Saeed Khan 7 1 Department of Psychiatry, Enam Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka 1340, Bangladesh 2 Department of Pharmacy, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali 3814, Bangladesh 3 Department of Professional Psychology, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan 4 Department of Psychiatry, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry 605006, India 5 Department of Psychiatry, Tairunnessa Memorial Medical College, Gazipur, Bangladesh 6 Department of Psychiatry, Chattogram International Medical College, Chattogram, Bangladesh 7 Department of Community Medicine, National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dhaka, Bangladesh Correspondence should be addressed to S. M. Yasir Arafat; arafatdmc62@gmail.com Received 29 October 2022; Revised 18 November 2022; Accepted 22 November 2022; Published 2 December 2022 Academic Editor: Lut Tamam Copyright © 2022 S. M. Yasir Arafat et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 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 23:32 ± 1:73 years; 52.5% were males, 92% were single, 75% were undergraduate students, 40.24% were studying in medical schools, 18.53% had a chronic illness, 9.45% had a mental illness, 4.16% had a family history of suicide, and 11.15% had previous nonfatal attempts. Cronbach’s alpha was 0.84, and factor analysis revealed unidimensional construct with six items with a good model fit. The BSCS showed acceptable convergent and discriminant validity. Conclusion. This study assessed the psychometric properties of Bangla BSCS among students which found acceptable reliability and validity. Further studies could test the validation especially among clinical samples to assess the predictive validity of the instrument. 1. Introduction Suicide is one of the major causes of death in early adult- hood [1]. In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that more than 700,000 people per annum die by suicide, and the situation is much more threatening for low and middle income countries [1]. Several prominent factors have been identified in explaining suicide such as biological, psychological, social, cultural, and religious [2]. Hence, the identification of risk factors becomes important in the pre- vention of suicide [2]. Theories explaining suicide have emphasized cognitive processes [3], like individual beliefs [4], attitudes [5], expec- tations [6], and perceptions [7]. Joiner’s interpersonal theory of suicide (IPTS) [8], O’Connor’s integrated-volitional model of suicide [7], and Shneidman’s psychache discussed in Namlı et al.’s [9] accentuated cognitive states like hope- lessness, helplessness, shame, guilt, burdensomeness, and thwarted belongingness resulting in entrapment in which an individual perceives a sense of urgently escaping from an unbearable situation [7–9]. However, treatment and pre- ventative approaches to suicide such as dialectical behavior Hindawi Mental Illness Volume 2022, Article ID 2327630, 7 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/2327630