Table 2.
Annotator characteristics.
| Annotators | ||
|---|---|---|
| Response to call | Directly contacted | 1500 |
| Indirectly contacted via social media | Unknown | |
| Did not meet inclusion criteria | 10 | |
| Completed training | 169 | |
| Withdrew before completing annotation | 17 | |
| Respondents who fully completed the annotation | 64 | |
| Annotators performance | Number of notes annotated at least once | 1278 |
| Number of notes annotated at least twice | 1225 | |
| Number of notes annotated at least three times | 1004 | |
| Mean (SD) annotation time per note | 4.4 min (1.3 min) | |
| Token inter-annotation agreement | 0.535 | |
| Sentence inter-annotation agreement | 0.546 | |
| Gender and age | Males | 10% |
| Females | 90% | |
| Average age (SD) | 47.3 (11.2) | |
| Age range | 23–70 | |
| Education level | High school degree | 26 |
| Associates degree | 13 | |
| Bachelors | 23 | |
| Masters | 34 | |
| Professional (Ph.D/MD/JD) | 4 | |
| Connection to suicide | Survivor of a loss to suicide | 70 |
| Mental health professional | 18 | |
| Other | 12 | |
| Time since loss occurred | 0–2 years | 27 |
| 3–5 years | 25 | |
| 6–10 years | 14 | |
| 11–15 years | 13 | |
| 16 years or more | 12 | |
| Relationship to the suicide | Child | 31 |
| Sibling | 23 | |
| Spouse or partner | 15 | |
| Other relative | 9 | |
| Parent | 8 | |
| Friend | 5 |
Notes: Some survey questions were not completed. Thus eliminating the ability to sum columns.