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Table 4 Demographics, clinical and service use-related factors: SSD vs. non-SSD suicide completers

From: Suicide completion in secondary mental healthcare: a comparison study between schizophrenia spectrum disorders and all other diagnoses

 

Total sample 308

SSD 54 (17.5)

non-SSD 254 (82.5)

OR (95% CI)

p-value

Age at death

42.7 ± 14.0

39.3 ± 11.9

43.5 ± 14.4

 

0.048

Gender (males)

211 (68.5)

38 (70.3)

173 (68.1)

1.11 (0.58-2.11)

0.87

Ethnicity

     

 White

187 (60.7)

26 (48.4)

161 (63.4)

0.54 (0.30-0.97)

0.046

 Black

36 (11.7)

20 (37.0)

16 (6.3)

8.75 (4.14-18.5)

< 0.001

 Others

85 (27.6)

8 (14.8)

77 (30.3)

0.40 (0.18-0.88)

0.020

Deprivation

28.0 ± 13.7

32.1 ± 11.4

27.1 ± 14.0

 

0.010

Mobility Impairment

8 (2.6)

4 (7.4)

4 (0.01)

5.00 (1.21-5.66)

0.034

First language English

147 (47.7)

34 (62.9)

113 (44.5)

2.12 (1.15-3.88)

0.016

Length of service contact (median, days)

184

1294

81

 

< 0.001

Last face-to-face to death (median, days)

70

10

146

 

< 0.001

  1. SSD: schizophrenia spectrum disorder; OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval. In bold: statistically significant differences.