TABLE 2.
Demographic, Clinical, and Neuropsychological Features of Suicide Attempters Versus Ideators
| Attempters (N=37) |
Ideators (N=40) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean or Frequency | SD or % | Mean or Frequency | SD or % | t or χ2 | df | p | |
| Demographics | |||||||
| Age, years | 35.4 | 10.8 | 39.5 | 10.1 | 1.718 | 75 | 0.090 |
| Education, years | 12.4 | 2.4 | 12.2 | 2.1 | −0.244 | 75 | NS |
| Women | 24 | 64.9% | 15 | 37.5% | 5.758 | 1 | 0.023 |
| Minority ethnicity | 6 | 16.2% | 12 | 30.0% | 2.039 | 1 | NS |
| Married | 12 | 32.4% | 2 | 5.0% | 9.723 | 1 | 0.002 |
| Employed | 11 | 29.7% | 3 | 7.5% | 6.385 | 1 | 0.017 |
| Clinical features | |||||||
| Major depressive disorder | 12 | 32.4% | 18 | 45.0% | |||
| Bipolar disorder | 10 | 27.0% | 8 | 20.0% | |||
| Schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder | 5 | 13.5% | 13 | 32.5% | |||
| Borderline personality disorder | 10 | 27.0% | 1 | 2.5% | |||
| Psychosis present | 5 | 13.5% | 16 | 40.0% | 6.798 | 1 | 0.011 |
| Substance/alcohol abuse or dependence | 22 | 59.5% | 19 | 47.5% | 1.104 | 1 | NS |
| Previous suicide attempts (square root) | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 0.512 | 75 | NS |
| Family history of completed suicide | 9 | 24.3% | 6 | 15.4% | 0.958 | 1 | NS |
| Neuropsychological measures | |||||||
| ANART estimated premorbid IQ | 106.2 | 8.2 | 104.3 | 9.0 | −0.954 | 74 | NS |
| Delay=Go total early starts (square root) | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 2.312 | 54.4 | 0.025 |
| Trails A, T-score | 45.1 | 10.1 | 43.0 | 10.5 | −0.888 | 75 | NS |
| Trails B, T-score | 44.2 | 10.2 | 39.2 | 12.6 | −1.947 | 75 | 0.055 |
| FAS, T-score | 41.7 | 8.7 | 44.0 | 9.8 | 1.094 | 75 | NS |
| Animals, T-score | 42.4 | 8.2 | 44.2 | 13.2 | 0.745 | 65.8 | NS |
| Stroop, T-score | 37.4 | 8.9 | 39.9 | 10.9 | 1.107 | 75 | NS |
| WCST total errors, T-score | 44.5 | 8.8 | 38.8 | 8.2 | −2.881 | 72 | 0.005 |
SD: standard deviation; ANART: American National Adult Reading Test; FAS: from the Controlled Oral Word-Association Test; WCST: Wisconsin Card-Sorting Test.