From: Cross-sectional study of attitudes about suicide among psychiatrists in Shanghai
SPAS subscales | Number of items | Alpha | Normality | Comparison of mean (sd) subscale scores without adjustment | Comparison adjusted for age, gender and years of education using linear regression models | |||||||
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Kolmogorov -Smirnov Za | p | Psychiatrists [n = 179] mean (sd) | Community membersb[n = 548] mean (sd) | t-test | p | β | Beta | 95% CI of β | p | |||
Subscale 1 c | 6 | 0.586 | 1.28 | 0.075 | 69.2 (15.4) | 47.0 (21.5) | 15.05 | <0.001 | 31.2 | 0.60 | 27.1 ~ 35.4 | <0.001 |
Subscale 2 c | 5 | 0.619 | 1.32 | 0.063 | 63.7 (16.1) | 51.0 (22.0) | 8.31 | <0.001 | 14.6 | 0.29 | 10.2 ~ 19.1 | <0.001 |
Subscale 3 c | 10 | 0.762 | 0.97 | 0.308 | 45.3 (14.5) | 33.4 (21.2) | 8.43 | <0.001 | 5.6 | 0.12 | 1.5 ~ 9.7 | 0.007 |
Subscale 4 c | 7 | 0.715 | 1.03 | 0.242 | 41.0 (16.9) | 60.9 (20.8) | −12.92 | <0.001 | −17.8 | −0.35 | −22.1 ~ −13.5 | <0.001 |
Subscale 5 c | 6 | 0.622 | 1.13 | 0.154 | 42.8 (15.8) | 52.1 (20.6) | −6.26 | <0.001 | −12.9 | −0.28 | −17.0 ~ −8.7 | <0.001 |
Subscale 6 c | 5 | 0.678 | 1.12 | 0.163 | 71.0 (16.0) | 38.4 (19.5) | 22.35 | <0.001 | 29.6 | 0.54 | 25.6 ~ 33.5 | <0.001 |
Subscale 7 c | 5 | 0.814 | 1.01 | 0.265 | 57.0 (21.5) | 62.6 (22.9) | −2.88 | 0.004 | −6.1 | −0.12 | −10.9 ~ −1.3 | 0.013 |