Table 1.

Socio-demographic and clinical variables

Parameters	Suicide Attempt Present (n=27)	Suicide Attempt Absent (n=34)	Chi- square/ F value	P value
Current Age	43.77(±9.518)	36.79 (±9.782)	7.668	0.008
Gender (M:F)	16:11	20:14	0.008	0.930
Education	9.81(±3.611)	9.62 (±3.985)	.036	0.850
Occupation 1/2/3/4	0/3/3/21	1/2/3/28	1.005	0.800
Marital status Ever/ Never	22/5	19/15	7.880	0.096
Age at onset	26.96 (±10.204)	24.03 (±8.604)	1.456	0.232
Duration of illness in weeks	560.92 (±338.280)	443.24 (±260.748)	2.279	0.137
Pattern of Symptoms 1/2/3/4/5	1/0/1/0/25	3/1/1/0/29	1.430	0.689
Longitudinal course of illness 1/2/3/4/5	1/2/24/0/0	0/2/27/3/2	5.430	0.246
Pattern of severity 1/2/3/4/5	0/1/14/12/0	2/5/15/11/1	4.873	0.301
GAF Worst Point	20.81 (±5.138)	23.15 (±4.736)	3.340	0.073
GAF Past Month	35.81 (±11.024)	45.21 (±19.155)	4.983	0.029

M= Males, F= Females. Occupation- 1= Professional, 2= Technical, 3= Service occupations, 4= unskilled jobs

Pattern of symptoms (qs.100 of DIGS) - 1= continuously positive, 2= predominantly negative, 3= predominantly positive converting to predominantly negative, 4= negative converting to positive, 5= continuous mixture of positive and negative symptoms

Longitudinal course of illness (qs.101 of DIGS) 1= episodic with inter-episodic residual symptoms, 2= episodic with no inter-episodic residual symptoms, 3= continuous, 4= single episode in partial remission, 5= single episode in partial remission

Pattern of severity (qs.102 of the DIGS) - 1= episodic shift, 2= mild deterioration, 3= moderate deterioration, 4= severe deterioration, 5= relatively stable.