Table 4.

Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of participants without suicidal ideation at the baseline and participants with suicidal ideation at the baseline

		No suicidal ideation				Suicidal ideation
		Escitalopram (n = 196)		Nortriptyline (n = 127)		Escitalopram (n = 254)		Nortriptyline (n = 219)
		n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Gender	Female	121	62	84	66	156	61	143	65
Marital status	Married/cohabiting	102	52	67	67	122	48	115	52
	Separated/divorced	43	22	24	19	55	22	45	21
	Single	48	25	28	22	67	26	50	23
	Widowed	3	2	8	6	10	4	9	4
Children	0	59	30	32	25	77	30	61	28
	1	63	32	46	36	83	33	58	26
	2	61	31	37	29	75	29	81	37
	3+	13	7	12	9	19	7	19	9
Occupation	Full-time work	72	37	38	30	99	39	75	34
	Part-time work	21	11	15	12	29	11	28	13
	Student	12	6	9	7	18	7	11	5
	Homemaker	7	4	7	5	7	3	13	6
	Retired	21	11	21	16	23	9	31	14
	Unemployed	63	32	37	29	78	31	61	28
Number of depressive episodes	1	77	39	29	23	82	32	70	32
	2	105	53	81	64	138	54	119	54
	3+	14	7	17	13	34	14	30	14
Number of suicide attempts		6	3	13	11	37	16	47	23
		Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean
Characteristics	Age	42.2	11.6	43.8	12.5	43.1	11.8	41.5	11.5
	Education (years)	12.1	2.9	12.1	3.2	12.1	3.3	12.1	3
	Age at onset	33.7	8.7	32	10.3	33	10.6	32.1	9.9
	Duration (weeks)	19.7	11	17.6	11.5	18.8	12.5	19.3	13.9
Baseline severity	Observed mood	0.8	0.6	0.7	0.5	1	0.6	1.1	0.6
	Suicidal score	0.05	0.4	0.05	0.4	1.3	0.5	1.3	0.5

SD = standard deviation.