Table 4.
Social and psychological factors associated with suicide
| Variable | Cases | Controls | ||||
| Mean | S.D | Mean | S.D | t-test | p-value | |
| Adverse life event¥ | ||||||
| Parent Related scores | ||||||
| Parent related events in childhood | 2.08 | 2.18 | 0.93 | 1.84 | 1.66 | 0.11 |
| Parent related events later in life | 3.46 | 1.98 | 2.06 | 2.22 | 2.06 | 0.05 |
| Parent related events in the last year | 1.69 | 1.7 | 2.07 | 2.21 | 0.6 | 0.55 |
| Sibling Related scores | ||||||
| Sibling related events in childhood | 0.115 | 0.38 | 0.065 | 0.25 | 0.79 | 0.44 |
| Sibling related events in later life | 0.31 | 0.63 | 0.16 | 0.45 | 0.76 | 0.46 |
| Sibling related events in last year | 0.23 | 0.44 | 0.35 | 0.49 | 0.83 | 0.42 |
| Personal scores | ||||||
| Personal events in childhood | 0.15 | 0.38 | 0 | 0 | 2.32 | 0.03 |
| Personal events in later life | 1.31 | 2.06 | 0.39 | 0.84 | 2.13 | 0.04 |
| Personal events inlast year | 5.04 | 1.29 | 4.32 | 2.2 | 1.04 | 0.31 |
| Partner related scores | ||||||
| Partner related events later in life | 0.23 | 0.83 | 0.13 | 0.72 | 0.41 | 0.69 |
| Partner related events in the last year | 1.38 | 2.4 | 0.74 | 1.75 | 0.99 | 0.33 |
| Psychological wellbeing | ||||||
| Psychological distress scores (SRQ-25) | 13.33 | 5.21 | 8.87 | 4.15 | 2.65 | 0.02* |
| Quality of life scores | 7.54 | 2.7 | 11.23 | 5.08 | 2.46 | 0.02* |
*
Statistically significant difference, p=0.05
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To control for multiple comparisons, Bonferroni corrected level of significance was set at p= 0.005 (0.05 /11) for the adverse life events