Table 3.
Life events, social support, and depressive symptoms of suicides and living controls
| Suicides with diagnosis (n = 45) |
Suicides without diagnosis (n = 21) |
Living controls n = 66) |
p-value 1 | p-value 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life events in recent one year [mean (SD)] | 4.63 (3.2) | 5.05 (4.2) | 2.44 (2.0) | .668 | .000 |
| Long-term life events [mean (SD)] | 2.42 (1.4) | 1.43 (0.8) | 0.82 (0.4) | .007 | .000 |
| Individuals with life events in recent one month [number (%)] | 17 (38) | 16 (76) | 5 (7.6) | .004 | .000 |
| Individuals with life events in recent one week [number (%)] | 10 (22) | 19 (90) | 2 (3.0) | .000 | .000 |
| Social support: Interaction | 6.93 (2.1) | 7.58 (2.4) | 8.71 (1.8) | .380 | .000 |
| Social support: Perception | 13.86 (3.1) | 14.09 (3.3) | 17.77 (2.8) | .509 | .000 |
| Social support: Instrumental | 22.01 (2.4) | 21.22 (1.9) | 23.15 (1.2) | .540 | .000 |
| Total score of HAMD | 30.3 (14.4) | 10.9 (6.7) | 7.4 (5.1) | .000 | .000 |
p-value 1 = comparison between suicides with and without psychiatric diagnoses, p-value 2 = comparison between suicides and living controls.