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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2015 Oct 21;31(6):592–600. doi: 10.1002/gps.4365

Figure 1. Predicted MMSE scores over the 2-year follow-up period for Suicide Attempters, Suicide Ideators, and Non-suicidal Depressed Older Adults.

Figure 1

Figure 1 depicts the trajectories of MMSE scores over a 24-month follow-up period for suicide attempters, ideators, and nonsuicidal depressed older adults, and shows that suicide attempters performed significantly worse than both suicide ideators and the nonsuicidal depressed group across the four time points. There was a trend such that suicide attempters showed improvement and the nonsuicidal depressed group showed decline over time, but this failed to reach significance.

*All analyses included age, sex, and education as covariates. Age was coded in years, education was coded as years of education, and sex was coded as 1=male and 2=female.

**MMSE scores of 189 participants at baseline, N=132 with at least 2 data points, N=112 with least 3 data points, and N=81 of participants with 4 data points.