Building a neurocognitive profile of suicidal risk in severe mental disorders

BMC Psychiatry

Table 1 Socio-demographic and psychopathological characteristics of the sample

	Patient Controls (with no Suicidal ideation/behaviour) (N = 27)			Patients with Suicidal Ideation (N = 20)			Patients with Suicide Attempts (N = 23)			Healthy Controls (N = 36)			Analysis
	Mean	SD	95% CI	Mean	SD	95% CI	Mean	SD	95% CI	Mean	SD	95% CI	F	Df	p
Age	41.1	12.6	36.2–45.9	38.3	13.8	32.6–44	38.3	13.0	33–43.5	40.4	12.1	36.2–44.6	0.3	3	0.8
Years of education	13.1	1.9	11.8–14.4	13	2.5	11.4–14.5	13.1	3.4	11.7–14.5	12.4	4.3	11.3–13.5	0.2	3	0.8
Duration of illness (yrs)	17.3	11.4	13.6–21.1	15.55	12.7	11.1–19.9	18	12.3	13.9–22				0.2	2	0.7
GAF	53.4		50.8–56.1	52.2		49.1–55.3	50.1		47.2–52.9				0.9	2	0.3
BPRS Total	45.9		42.2–49.6	48.1		43.8–53.4	48.1		44.1–52.1				0.2	2	0.7
	Male	Female	Analysis
			χ2	Df	p
N (%)	61 (57%)	45 (43%)	3.1	3	0.3

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