Cross-sectional study of attitudes about suicide among psychiatrists in Shanghai

Jiao, Yumei; Phillips, Michael R; Sheng, Yourong; Wu, Guojun; Li, Xianyun; Xiong, Wei; Wang, Liwei

doi:10.1186/1471-244X-14-87

BMC Psychiatry

Table 3 Results of seven linear regression analyses of factors associated with the seven attitudes about suicide assessed by the subscales of the Scale of Public Attitudes about Suicide (SPAS) in 179 psychiatrists from Shanghai ^a

From: Cross-sectional study of attitudes about suicide among psychiatrists in Shanghai

Attitudes	β	Beta	95% CI of β	p
*Subscale 1: Respondent believes suicide can be prevented (0–100)*
Male	−5.38	−0.17	−10.07 ~ −0.69	0.025
Years working as a psychiatrist	0.02	0.02	−0.18 ~ 0.22	0.843
*Subscale 2: Respondent believes individuals are able to control their own suicidal tendencies*
Male	−3.73	−0.12	−8.65 ~ 1.19	0.136
Years working as a psychiatrist	−0.11	−0.08	−0.32 ~ 0.10	0.303
*Subscale 3: Respondent holds stigmatizing attitudes about suicide*
Male	−2.91	−0.10	−7.31 ~ 1.49	0.193
Years working as a psychiatrist	0.06	0.05	−0.13 ~ 0.25	0.538
Psychiatrist from tertiary psychiatric center	−5.95	−0.20	−10.28 ~ −1.63	0.007
*Subscale 4: Respondent is understanding of and feels empathy for persons with suicidal behavior*
Male	9.43	0.28	4.50 ~ 14.36	<0.001
Years working as a psychiatrist	0.06	0.04	−0.18 ~ 0.29	0.638
Years of education	2.13	0.22	0.59 ~ 3.66	0.007
*Subscale 5: Respondent believes suicidal behavior is an effective method of controlling others*
Male	5.09	0.16	0.26 ~ 9.92	0.039
Years working as a psychiatrist	−0.08	−0.06	−0.29 ~ 0.12	0.422
*Subscale 6: Respondent believes that suicide is an important social problem*
Male	0.34	0.01	−4.51 ~ 5.18	0.892
Years working as a psychiatrist	0.03	0.02	−0.18 ~ 0.24	0.766
Psychiatrist from tertiary psychiatric center	−7.03	−0.22	−11.80 ~ −2.26	0.004
*Subscale 7: Respondent believes that suicides and suicide attempts are essentially different*
Male	−2.63	−0.06	−9.01 ~ 3.75	0.418
Years working as a psychiatrist	−0.48	−0.26	−0.75 ~ −0.21	0.001

^aThe seven attitudes are assessed on continuous scales with a range of 0 to 100. In all seven analyses two variables were initially forced into the model (gender, and years of working as a psychiatrist) and then four other variables (type of hospital [tertiary psychiatric center v. district hospital or rehabilitation center], professional status [entered as two dummy variables using attending psychiatrist as the reference group], years of education, and whether or not the clinician’s current work was limited to inpatient service provision) were entered by a forward stepwise method if significant at the p < 0.05 level.

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