Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of members in each suicidal ideation trajectory.
| Characteristics | Latent trajectorya | P value | ||||
| High decreasing (n=46) |
High increasing (n=11) |
High stable (n=128) |
Low stable (n=51) |
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| Age in years, mean (SD) | 41 (12.3) | 36 (12.0) | 41 (14.3) | 41 (13.8) | .66b | |
| Sex, n (%) | .96c | |||||
| Women | 30 (65) | 8 (73) | 85 (66) | 33 (65) | ||
| Men | 16 (35) | 3 (27) | 43 (34) | 18 (35) | ||
| Having children, n (%) | .58c | |||||
| No | 27 (60) | 9 (82) | 78 (61) | 31 (63) | ||
| Yes | 18 (40) | 2 (18) | 49 (39) | 18 (37) | ||
| Random allocation, n (%) | .04c | |||||
| Control group | 15 (33) | 6 (55) | 68 (53) | 31 (61) | ||
| Intervention group | 31 (67) | 5 (45) | 60 (47) | 20 (39) | ||
| Receiving other help, n (%) | .25c | |||||
| No | 21 (47) | 2 (18) | 52 (42) | 25 (50) | ||
| Yes | 24 (53) | 9 (82) | 73 (58) | 25 (50) | ||
| Paid employment, n (%) | .07c | |||||
| No | 19 (42) | 9 (82) | 67 (53) | 21 (43) | ||
| Yes | 26 (58) | 2 (18) | 60 (47) | 28 (57) | ||
| Living with partner, n (%) | .03c | |||||
| No | 20 (44) | 9 (82) | 88 (65) | 29 (57) | ||
| Yes | 26 (57) | 2 (18) | 45 (35) | 22 (43) | ||
| History of attempted suicide, n (%) | <.01c | |||||
| No | 21 (47) | 2 (18) | 78 (61) | 36 (74) | ||
| Yes | 24 (53) | 9 (82) | 49 (39) | 13 (27) | ||
| Clinical scale, mean score (SD) | ||||||
| Beck Depression Inventory | 26 (9.9) | 34 (12.0) | 29 (8.3) | 22 (8.6) | <.01b | |
| Beck Hopelessness Scale | 15 (3.4) | 15 (3.4) | 15 (3.5) | 12 (3.6) | <.01b | |
aNumbers of members in each class diverge slightly from those in Figure 2 because, while the figure is based on posterior probabilities, classes used for post hoc analyses are based on most likely class membership.
bAnalysis of variance F test.
cPearson chi-square test.