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Table 5 Results of logistic regression analysis of factors associated with responses to three questions about suicide-related knowledge from the Scale of Public Attitudes about Suicide (SPAS) by 179 psychiatrists in Shanghai a

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

SPAS items relating to knowledge about suicide

Wald

p

Odds Ratio (OR)

95% CI of OR

Persons who have attempted suicide may repeat their suicidal behavior

  Male

0.75

0.386

1.76

0.49 ~ 6.28

  Years of experience in psychiatry

0.25

0.620

0.99

0.92 ~ 1.05

  Subscale 6: Believes that suicide is an important social problem

11.12

<0.001

1.09

1.04 ~ 1.14

  Psychiatrist from tertiary psychiatric center

7.74

0.005

7.45

1.81 ~ 30.67

Talking about suicide-related issues with an individual does not precipitate suicidal behavior

  Male

0.03

0.864

1.06

0.55 ~ 2.04

  Years of experience in psychiatry

0.79

0.376

0.99

0.96 ~ 1.02

  Subscale 6: Believes that suicide is an important social problem

6.45

0.011

1.03

1.01 ~ 1.05

  Subscale 7: Believes that suicide and suicide attempt are essentially different

4.53

0.033

0.98

0.97 ~ 1.00

Individuals who say they intend to kill themselves may actually do it

  Male

2.65

0.104

1.77

0.89 ~ 3.52

  Years of experience in psychiatry

0.46

0.500

1.01

0.98 ~ 1.04

  Years of education

3.89

0.049

1.25

1.00 ~ 1.57

  Subscale 5: Believes that suicide is an effective method of controlling others

6.38

0.012

1.03

1.01 ~ 1.05

  Subscale 6: Believes that suicide is an important social problem

6.16

0.013

1.03

1.01 ~ 1.05

  Subscale 1: Believes that suicide can be prevented

6.02

0.014

1.03

1.01 ~ 1.06

  1. aIn the three logistic regression analyses, responses to the three variables about suicide knowledge were dichotomized: ‘definitely disagree’ , ‘mostly disagree’ and ‘neither agree nor disagree’ were coded as ‘1’; ‘mostly agree’ and ‘definitely agree’ were coded as ‘2’. Two variables were initially forced into the models (gender, and years of working as a psychiatrist) and then eleven 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, whether or not the clinician’s current work was limited to inpatient service provision and the seven subscales scores of the SPAS) were entered by a forward stepwise method if significant at the p < 0.05 level.