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

Figure 3

Figure 3 depicts the trajectories of DRS 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 on the DRS than the nonsuicidal depressed group across the four time points. The rate of change in performance on the DRS differed across three groups, such that the nonsuicidal group showed a trend toward decline in performance, and the suicide attempters and ideators showed a trend towards improvement in performance; however, the trajectory of change in DRS performance for each group 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.

**DRS scores of 210 participants at baseline, N=157 with at least 2 data points, N=105 with least 3 data points, and N=70 of participants with 4 data points.