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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 2.
Published in final edited form as: Crisis. 2009;30(2):68–72. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910.30.2.68

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of the suicides with and without psychiatric diagnoses and the living controls

Suicides with
diagnosis (n = 45)		 Suicides without
diagnosis (n = 21)		 Controls (n = 66) p-value 1 p-value 2
Gender [n of males (%)]     35 (77.8)     13 (61.9)     48 (72.7) .177 .403
Age [mean years (SD)]     49.9 (17.3)     36.0 (12.4)     44.9 (16.7) .002 .007
Marital status [no. of married (%)]     30 (66.7)     13 (61.9)     53 (80.3) .705 .136
Education years [mean years (SD)]       5.2 (2.8)       6.6 (1.8)       7.4 (3.8) .038 .002
Family income [mean RMB (SD)] 1850 (1604) 3640 (5925) 3622 (3038) .029 .016
Employment [no. of unemployed (%)]     14 (31.1)       8 (38.1)     17 (25.8) .340 .537

p-value 1: comparison between suicides with and without psychiatric diagnoses, p-value 2: comparison between suicides and living controls.