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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2019 Feb 2;273:746–752. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.01.101

Table 1.

Characteristics of respondents with and without lifetime suicide attempt.

Did you ever attempt suicide
intending to die?
No
(n = 170)
yes
(n = 55)
Total
(N= 225)a

Mean age in years (SD) 33.3 (15.7) 29.5 (14.5) 32.4(15.5)  t =1.65
Gender χ2 = 0.04
 Male 69 23 92
 Female 96 30 126
Race χ2 = 2.89b
 American Indian/Alaska Native  5  2  7
 Asian  4  0  4
 Native Hawaiian/other PI  2  0  2
 Black/African American  25  6  31
 White 101 37 138
 Mixed  13  5  18
Hispanic/Latino Ethnicity χ2 = 3.82
 No 118 46 164
 Yes  50  9  59
English as first language χ2 = 3.54
 No  30  4  34
 Yes 139 51 190
Diagnosed with mental illness χ2 = 35.5 ***
 No 152 29 181
 Yes  18  26  44
Experienced psychological pain χ2 = 20.2b***
 Past week  99  49  148
 Past month  14  4  18
 Past year  27  1  28
 Longer ago  30  1  31
Worst psychological pain χ2 = 1.78
 Past week  20  10  29
 Past month  28  7  34
 Past year  46  16  60
 Longer ago  73  22  92
Attempted suicide
 Past week  n/a  1  n/a
 Past month  n/a  4  n/a
 Past year  n/a  11  n/a
 Longer ago  n/a  39  n/a

Note. PI: Pacific Islander.

a

counts do not always add up to N due to missing data.

b

test included cells with expected counts less than 5.

**

p<. 01,

***

p<.001.