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Table 1 Prevalence of suicidal ideation in gross sample and according to patients’ substance use status

From: Suicidal ideation in patients with mental illness and concurrent substance use: analyses of national census data in Norway

Suicidal ideation status

Gross sample

(n = 25 525)

Substance usea (n = 3842)

No substance use

(n = 20 413)

Substance use vs no substance use

n

%

n

%

n

%

χ2

df

p-value

Suicidal

ideation

4 730

19.5

992

25.8

3 738

18.3

   

No suicidal ideation

19 530

80.5

2850

74.2

16 680

81.7

   

Chi-square test

   

109.7

1

 < 0.001

  1. Total number with missing data on suicidality: n = 1 265, a Analytic sample: inpatients, n = 751; outpatients n = 3091