Table 3.

Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with a history of violent suicide attempts (N = 24).

Gender, male (N; %)	11; 45.8
Diagnosis, Bipolar disorder type I, (N; %)	18; 75%
Age (mean ± SD)	49.46 ± 13.02
Age at illness onset (mean ± SD)	27. 09 ± 8.73
Duration of illness (mean ± SD)	15.94 ± 10.42
Number of depressive episodes (mean ± SD)	7.57 ± 5.89
Number of manic episodes (mean ± SD)	3.76 ± 1.94
Number of hypomanic episodes (mean ± SD)	7.01 ± 5.20
Number of mixed episodes (mean ± SD)	2.52 ± 1.19
Lifetime number of affective episodes (mean ± SD)	14.88 ± 11.01
Number of affective episodes during last year (mean ± SD)	2.23 ± 11.01
Lifetime number of psychiatric admissions (mean ± SD)	0.380 ± 0 .69
Duration of psychiatric admissions (mean ± SD)	0.56 ± 1.12
Clinical Course (N; %)
Mania–Depression–Interval (MDI)	4; 16.7
Depression–Mania–Interval (DMI)	5; 20.8
Mania–Interval–Depression (MID)	3; 12.5
Depression–Interval–Mania (DIM)	1; 4.2
Rapid cycling	8; 33.3 *
Irregular cycling	7; 29.2
Presence of psychotic symptoms, yes (N; %)	13; 54.2
during depressive episodes	3; 12.5
during manic episodes	6; 25
during mixed episodes	4; 16.7
Aggressive behaviours (N; %)	17; 70.8
Lithium Therapy (N; %)	10; 41.7%
brief TEMPS-M subscores
Depressive (dep)	24.04 ± 6.29
Cyclothymic (cyc)	27.6 ± 5.39 *
Irritable (irr)	18.58 ± 7.64
Anxious (anx)	20.54 ± 5.71
Hyperthymic (hyp)	17.25 ± 5.60 *
TCI-R subscores (mean ± SD)
NS total score	103.91 ± 18.59
HA total score	112.70 ± 26
RD total score	99.31 ± 13.9
PS total score	101.6 ± 27.45
SD total score	119.25 ± 21.79
C total score	124.02 ± 16.06
ST total score	71.3 ± 18.75

Abbreviations: novelty seeking (NS), harm avoidance (HA), reward dependence (RD) and persistence (PS), self-directiveness (SD), cooperativeness (CO) and self-transcendence (ST). * p < 0.002 (Bonferroni).