Table 3.

Associated factors of positive and negative suicidal ideations in the patients

Variable	P value 1
	NSI 2	PSI 3
Sex	0.58	0.12
Education	0.39	0.35
Employment	0.04	0.06
Marital status	0.71	0.08
Living alone	0.01	0.18
Housing	0.13	0.71
Family support	0.01	0.22
Smoking	0.24	0.91
Substance abuse	0.41	0.06
Alcohol use	0.06	0.21
Route of transmission	0.11	0.03
age	0.31	0.09
Weight	0.61	0.58
Time from HIV infection diagnosis	0.32	0.13
duration of antiretroviral therapy	0.39	0.15
Receiving antiretroviral therapy	0.06	0.33
Receiving efavirenz	0.07	0.18
Hospital anxiety scale	<0.001	<0.001
Hospital depression scale	<0.001	<0.001
Somatization subscale of SCL 904	<0.001	<0.001
7Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Inventory	<0.001	<0.001

¹Based on Kruskal–Wallis or Mann–Whitney-U-test or Spearman rank test analysis

²Negetive suicidal ideation

³Positive suicidal ideation

⁴ Symptom checklist