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Table 3 Demographics, clinical and service use-related factors for suicide completers across diagnoses

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

 

Total sample 308

Schizophrenia spectrum disorder 54 (17.5)

Affective psychosis 23 (7.4)

Mood disorders/neuroses 62 (20.1)

Organic/drugs 45 (14.6)

Other diagnoses 30 (9.7)

Diagnosis unknown 94 (30.5)

p-value

Age at the time of death

42.7 ± 14.0

39.3 ± 11.9

49.3 ± 14.2

47.0 ± 16.5

44.7 ± 14.0

39.3 ± 13.4

40.4 ± 12.5

0.040

Gender (males)

211 (68.5)

38 (70.3)

10 (43.5)

40 (64.5)

36 (80.0)

19 (63.3)

68 (72.3)

0.052

Ethnicity

        

 White British

157 (51)

22 (40.7)

18 (78.3)

45 (72.6)

30 (75.0)

13 (4.3)

29 (30.8)

< 0.001

 Other white background

30 (9.7)

4 (7.4)

1 (4.3)

3 (4.8)

8 (16.6)

2 (6.6)

12 (12.7)

ns

 South Asian

5 (1.6)

2 (3.7)

0 (4.3)

2 (3.2)

0 (0)

0 (0)

1 (1.0)

ns

 African and other black

25 (8.1)

12 (22.2)

0 (0)

1 (1.6)

1 (2.2)

1 (3.3)

10 (10.6)

< 0.001

 Caribbean

11 (3.6)

8 (14.8)

1 (4.3)

0 (0)

2 (4.4)

0 (0)

0 (0)

< 0.001

 Mixed and others

16 (5.2)

3 (5.5)

1 (4.3)

2 (3.2)

2 (4.4)

4 (13.3)

4 (4.2)

ns

 Missing

64 (20.7)

3 (5.5)

2 (8.7)

9 (14.5)

2 (4.4)

10 (33.3)

38 (40.4)

< 0.001

Deprivation

28.0 ± 13.7

32.1 ± 11.4

22.5 ± 13.8

27.2 ± 13.5

30.2 ± 13.1

26.1 ± 13.3

27.1 ± 14.3

ns

Hearing Impairment

4 (1.3)

1 (1.85)

0 (0)

1 (1.6)

1 (2.2)

0 (0)

1 (1.0)

ns

Visual Impairment

2 (0.6)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

2 (4.4)

0 (0)

0 (0)

ns

Mobility Impairment

8 (2.6)

4 (7.4)

0 (0)

1 (1.6)

0 (0)

1 (3.3)

2 (2.1)

ns

First language English

147 (47.7)

34 (62.9)

10 (43.5)

30 (48.4)

28 (62.2)

11 (36.6)

34 (36.2)

0.008

Length of service contact (median, days)

184

1294

292

184

513

48

0

< 0.001

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

70

10

19

93

31

177.5

560

< 0.001

  1. In bold: statistically significant differences.