Table 1.

Demographic and Course of Illness Characteristics

	SSI > 3 (n=10)		SSI < 4 (n=23)		Total (N=33)		High vs. Low SSI
	MEAN	SD	MEAN	SD	MEAN	SD	p
Age	49.3	13.4	45.0	13.9	46.3	13.7	0.42
Age of Onset	21.6	10.4	20.7	12.3	20.9	11.7	0.85
Length of Illness (Years)	28.8	11.7	24.3	13.0	25.5	12.6	0.40
Length of Current Episode (Months)	92.0	123.4	100.7	148.3	98.5	140.3	0.88
Episodes	44.1	51.3	24.4	40.7	29.0	43.3	0.30
Height (cm)	174.3	9.8	174.2	11.7	174.2	11.0	0.98
Weight (kg)	90.8	19.0	95.7	28.2	94.2	25.6	0.62
BMI	29.8	5.3	31.2	7.9	30.8	7.1	0.61
Clinical Scales (Baseline)
• Suicide
• SSI	8.7	7.0	0.6	0.9	3.0	5.4	<.001
• HDRS Item	2.3	0.8	0.5	0.7	1.1	1.1	<.001
• MADRS Item	3.4	1.0	1.7	0.9	2.2	1.2	<.001
• Depression
• HDRS	24.5	5.0	18.7	2.7	20.5	4.4	<.001
• MADRS	36.8	4.5	31.6	3.1	33.2	4.3	<.001
• Anxiety (HDRS Subscale)	7.2	2.3	5.9	1.2	6.3	1.7	0.04
• BPRS	36.7	5.8	35.4	5.4	35.8	5.5	0.54
• CADSS	7.9	12.7	3.5	5.2	4.8	8.3	0.16
	N	%	N	%	N	%	p
Gender (Male)	6	60	14	61	20	61	0.96
Education (College Graduate)	4	50	14	64	18	60	0.50
Mood Disorder Family History	8	100	20	87	28	90	0.28
Hospitalized (Lifetime)	7	70	10	43	17	52	0.16
Suicide
• Ideation
• Lifetime	9	90	11	48	20	61	0.02
• Admission	8	80	4	17	12	36	0.001
• Attempt
• Self	7	70	3	13	10	30	0.001
• Family History	4	40	8	35	12	36	0.77

Abbreviations: BMI: Body Mass Index; BPRS: Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale; CADSS: Clinician Administered Dissociative States Scale; HDRS: Hamilton Depression Rating Scale; MADRS: Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale; SSI: Scale for Suicide Ideation