Table 3.
Attitudes | β | Beta | 95% CI of β | p |
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Subscale 1: Respondent believes suicide can be prevented (0–100)
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Male |
−5.38 |
−0.17 |
−10.07 ~ −0.69 |
0.025 |
Years working as a psychiatrist |
0.02 |
0.02 |
−0.18 ~ 0.22 |
0.843 |
Subscale 2: Respondent believes individuals are able to control their own suicidal tendencies
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Male |
−3.73 |
−0.12 |
−8.65 ~ 1.19 |
0.136 |
Years working as a psychiatrist |
−0.11 |
−0.08 |
−0.32 ~ 0.10 |
0.303 |
Subscale 3: Respondent holds stigmatizing attitudes about suicide
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Male |
−2.91 |
−0.10 |
−7.31 ~ 1.49 |
0.193 |
Years working as a psychiatrist |
0.06 |
0.05 |
−0.13 ~ 0.25 |
0.538 |
Psychiatrist from tertiary psychiatric center |
−5.95 |
−0.20 |
−10.28 ~ −1.63 |
0.007 |
Subscale 4: Respondent is understanding of and feels empathy for persons with suicidal behavior
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Male |
9.43 |
0.28 |
4.50 ~ 14.36 |
<0.001 |
Years working as a psychiatrist |
0.06 |
0.04 |
−0.18 ~ 0.29 |
0.638 |
Years of education |
2.13 |
0.22 |
0.59 ~ 3.66 |
0.007 |
Subscale 5: Respondent believes suicidal behavior is an effective method of controlling others
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Male |
5.09 |
0.16 |
0.26 ~ 9.92 |
0.039 |
Years working as a psychiatrist |
−0.08 |
−0.06 |
−0.29 ~ 0.12 |
0.422 |
Subscale 6: Respondent believes that suicide is an important social problem
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Male |
0.34 |
0.01 |
−4.51 ~ 5.18 |
0.892 |
Years working as a psychiatrist |
0.03 |
0.02 |
−0.18 ~ 0.24 |
0.766 |
Psychiatrist from tertiary psychiatric center |
−7.03 |
−0.22 |
−11.80 ~ −2.26 |
0.004 |
Subscale 7: Respondent believes that suicides and suicide attempts are essentially different
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Male |
−2.63 |
−0.06 |
−9.01 ~ 3.75 |
0.418 |
Years working as a psychiatrist | −0.48 | −0.26 | −0.75 ~ −0.21 | 0.001 |
aThe seven attitudes are assessed on continuous scales with a range of 0 to 100. In all seven analyses two variables were initially forced into the model (gender, and years of working as a psychiatrist) and then four other variables (type of hospital [tertiary psychiatric center v. district hospital or rehabilitation center], professional status [entered as two dummy variables using attending psychiatrist as the reference group], years of education, and whether or not the clinician’s current work was limited to inpatient service provision) were entered by a forward stepwise method if significant at the p < 0.05 level.