Table 1.
Characteristics of schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, and major depressive disorder patients who died by suicide and those who did not
| |
Schizophrenia |
Bipolar affective disorder |
Major depressive disorder |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suicide | Non-suicide | p-value | Suicide | Non-suicide | p-value | Suicide | Non-suicide | p-value | |
| |
N = 82 |
N = 164 |
|
N = 23 |
N = 46 |
|
N = 67 |
N = 134 |
|
| Age at laboratory tests (years), mean ± SD |
31.1 ± 9.1 |
31.5 ± 8.6 |
0.699a |
36.5 ± 11.6 |
35.9 ± 10.0 |
0.830a |
52.6 ± 15.2 |
54.1 ± 15.2 |
0.519a |
| Age at first admission (years) |
29.1 ± 9.3 |
29.3 ± 8.9 |
0.859a |
34.0 ± 11.6 |
32.7 ± 10.4 |
0.620a |
51.6 ± 15.1 |
53.2 ± 14.8 |
0.494a |
| Number of admissions, mean ± SD |
2.2 ± 2.3 |
2.4 ± 2.5 |
0.638a |
2.5 ± 1.8 |
2.5 ± 2.1 |
>0.99a |
1.6 ± 1.3 |
1.6 ± 1.0 |
0.895a |
| Body mass index (kg/m2), mean ± SD |
22.1 ± 3.7 |
23.1 ± 4.1 |
0.086a |
23.8 ± 3.6 |
23.9 ± 3.0 |
0.93a |
22.8 ± 3.2 |
22.9 ± 3.5 |
0.894a |
| Sex, male, n (%) |
42(51) |
80(49) |
0.787b |
14(61) |
29(63) |
>0.99b |
30(45) |
56(42) |
0.763b |
| Socio-economic status, n (%) |
|
|
0.479b |
|
|
0.457b |
|
|
0.259b |
| High |
19(27) |
33(21) |
|
3(14) |
12(27) |
|
13(24) |
39(31) |
|
| Middle |
32(45) |
84(53) |
|
12(55) |
22(50) |
|
28(51) |
66(53) |
|
| Low |
20(28) |
41(26) |
|
7(32) |
10(23) |
|
14(25) |
20(16) |
|
| Use of atypical antipsychotics, n (%) |
16 (19.5) |
43 (26.2) |
0.245b |
4 (17.4) |
11 (23.9) |
0.536b |
4 (6.0) |
7 (5.2) |
0.826b |
| Comorbid medical disease |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| None |
75(91.5) |
155(94.5) |
0.361b |
17(73.9) |
40(87.0) |
0.178b |
47(70.1) |
81(60.4) |
0.178b |
| Endocrine disease |
2(2.4) |
1 (0.6) |
|
0 |
0 |
|
4(6.0) |
13(9.7) |
|
| Cardiovascular disease |
0 |
1(0.6) |
|
2(8.7) |
2(3.3) |
|
12(17.9) |
22(16.4) |
|
| Liver disease |
0 |
3(1.8) |
|
1(4.3) |
0 |
|
0 |
3(2.2) |
|
| Neurological disease |
3(3.7) |
1(0.6) |
|
2(8.7) |
1(2.2) |
|
3(4.5) |
3(2.2) |
|
| Cancer |
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
3(2.2) |
|
| Othersc | 2(2.4) | 3(1.8) | 1(4.3) | 3(6.5) | 1(1.5) | 9(6.7) | |||
a, t-test; b, X2 test; c, Others include cystitis, fracture, rheumatoid arthritis, blind, pneumothorax, and pulmonary tuberculosis.