BMC Psychiatry

Table 5 Correlations of the ULS-6 to validating scales in suicide cases and living controls

From: The validity of proxy-based data on loneliness in suicide research: a case-control psychological autopsy study in rural China

Scale	Suicide cases (n = 242)	Living controls (n = 242)
Scale	ULS-6 (Spearman’s rho)	ULS-6 (Spearman’s rho)
GDS score	0.277^a	0.516^a
QOL score	−0.344^a	-0.382^a
DSSI score	-0.443^a	-0.466^a

^aCorrelation is significant at the 0.01 level

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