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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2013 Feb 6;21(8):10.1016/j.jagp.2013.01.015. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2013.01.015

Table 1.

Descriptives and Conditional Probabilities for Indicators Given Class Membership

Low Distress/
No Suicidal
Ideation
High Distress/
No Suicidal
Ideation
High Distress/
Death Ideation
Low Distress/
Suicidal
Ideation
High Distress/
Suicidal
Ideation
Construct Indicators Total Sample Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5
n=345 (100%) n=255 (74%) n=20 (6%) n=25 (7%) n=35 (10%) n=10 (3%)
Distress MADRS depressiona 6.20 (6.73) 3.882 12.520 18.095 5.913 23.517
BSA anxietya 7.48 (6.04) 5.586 19.732 16.125 5.933 15.886
Current SI None 0.858 0.981 1.000 0.088 0.659 0.103
Fleeting 0.116 0.019 0.000 0.912 0.275 0.220
Frequent 0.026 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.066 0.667
History of SI/SB Life not worth living 0.248 0.100 0.068 0.776 0.799 1.000
Wish for death 0.217 0.050 0.000 0.834 0.860 1.000
Taking own life 0.108 0.012 0.079 0.034 0.601 1.000
Serious/plan 0.041 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.193 0.721
Attempt 0.017 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.028 0.515
Correlates Men 0.301 0.325 0.150 0.200 0.314 0.200
Social isolation 0.075 0.063 0.050 0.120 0.057 0.400
Lives alone 0.667 0.686 0.700 0.640 0.514 0.700
Lives in nursing home 0.087 0.071 0.050 0.160 0.171 0.100
Any depression diagnosis 0.162 0.075 0.500 0.720 0.086 0.600
ADL impairments a 1.663 1.513 1.900 2.120 1.740 3.600

Note. For the Total Sample column, MADRS and BSA values are means, all other values are proportions reporting each indicator. Statistically significant loadings are underlined. MADRS = Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale. BSA = Brief Scale for Anxiety. SI = Suicidal ideation. SB = Suicidal behavior. Social isolation = Never talk with neighbor. Any depression diagnosis = Major Depression, Dysthymia, Depressive Disorder NOS in the past month.

a

Continuous variables: data are means (and standard deviations) rather than probabilities