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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2013 Mar 26;43(4):366–378. doi: 10.1111/sltb.12023

Table 2.

Sample Characteristics and Network Density at Wave 1 by Suicide Ideation and Plan at Wave 4, SHIELD study (n=819)

Suicide Ideation Suicide Plan

Never (n=564) Over a year ago (n=138) Within a past year (n=117) p-value Never (n=632) Over a year ago (n=94) Within a past year (n=93) p-value
Network density n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
 75% or above 237 (42) 41 (30) 33 (28) 0.01 259 (41) 27 (29) 25 (27) 0.02
 50–75% 170 (30) 46 (33) 45 (38) 197 (31) 29 (31) 35 (38)
 25–50% 129 (23) 39 (28) 28 (24) 142 (22) 31 (33) 23 (25)
 25% or less 28 (5) 12 (9) 11 (9) 34 (5) 7 (7) 10 (11)
Female gender 213 (38) 66 (48) 62 (53) 0.003 248 (39) 45 (48) 48 (52) 0.03
Age (Mean±SD) 39±7.3 39±6.3 38±7.5 0.21 39±7.2 40±6.1 37±7.9 0.03
HS or greater education 301 (53) 83 (60) 56 (48) 0.14 337 (53) 59 (63) 44 (47) 0.10
Have a main sexual partner 361 (64) 83 (60) 78 (67) 0.54 406 (64) 57 (61) 59 (63) 0.79
Unemployed in the past 6 months 482 (85) 114 (83) 104 (89) 0.37 539 (85) 79 (84) 82 (88) 0.70
Homeless in the past 6 months 112 (20) 28 (20) 30 (26) 0.37 127 (20) 19 (20) 24 (26) 0.44
Imprisoned in the past 6 months 76 (13) 18 (13) 15 (13) 0.98 89 (14) 6 (6) 14 (15) 0.11
Used drugs in the past 6 months 414 (73) 100 (72) 87 (74) 0.94 467 (74) 70 (74) 64 (69) 0.57
Self-report HIV positive 86 (15) 32 (23) 31 (27) 0.004 99 (16) 22 (23) 28 (30) 0.001
Depressive Symptoms
 Moderate 117 (21) 27 (20) 28 (24) 136 (22) 16 (17) 20 (22)
 High 172 (31) 64 (46) 64 (55) <0.001 202 (32) 44 (47) 54 (58) <0.001