Table 2.

Attitudes measured with the Understanding of Suicidal Patients Scale according to gender and specialty

	General practitioners	Psychiatrists	Internists
	(n = 85)	(n = 97)	(n = 105)
	Mean (95% CI)	Mean (95% CI)	Mean (95% CI)
Total	19.4 (18.3–20.4)	18.4 (17.5–19.4)	22.7 (21.7–23.7) p = 0.01
Females	17.7 (16.2–19.2)	18.3 (16.7–19.9)	21.7 (20.0–23.4)
Males	20.3 (19.0–21.6)	18.3 (17.4–19.7)	23.0 (21.8–24.3)
	p = 0.014	p = 0.785	p = 0.245

The Understanding of Suicidal Patients Scale ranges from 11 (completely positive) to 55 (completely negative). Scores below 23 are considered to be positive.