. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 27.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2019 Sep 1;255(5):595–608. doi: 10.2460/javma.255.5.595

Table 1—

Demographic characteristics obtained from NVDRS records for 189 veterinary professionals who died by suicide or had death of undetermined intent from 2003 to 2014, categorized by occupational group.

Variable	Veterinarians (n = 73)	Veterinary technicians or technologists (n = 77)	Veterinary assistants or laboratory animal caretakers (n = 39)	P value
Sex				< 0.001
Male	54 (74%)^a	21 (27%)^b	13 (33%)^b
Female	19 (26%)^a	56 (73%)^b	26 (67%)^b
Marital status				< 0.001
Married or part of a civil union	37 (51%)^a	24 (31%)^b	9 (23%)^b
Never married	14 (19%)^a	31 (40%)^b	20 (51%)^b
Widowed, divorced, or separated	22 (30%)^a	16 (21%)^a	10 (26%)^a
Single (otherwise specified) or unknown	0 (0%)^a	6 (8%)^b	0 (0%)^a,b
Race and ethnicity				0.001
White, non-Hispanic	71 (97%)^a	72 (94%)^a	29 (74%)^b
Nonwhite, non-Hispanic (including multiracial)	^—^a	^—^a	^—^b
Hispanic	^—^a	^—^a	^—^a
Age (y)				< 0.001
15–19	0 (0%)^a	^—^a	^—^a
20–29	^—^a	23 (30%)^a	12 (31%)^b
30–39	9 (12%)^a	28 (36%)^b	10 (26%)^a,b
40–49	14 (19%)^a	17 (22%)^a	10 (26%)^a
50–59	26 (36%)^a	5 (7%)^b	^—^b
60–69	10 (14%)^a	^—^a	^—^a
70–74	^—^a	0 (0%)^a	0 (0%)^a
≥ 75	12 (16%)^a	0 (0%)^b	0 (0%)^a,b
Employment status at time of death				0.64
Employed	61 (84%)	67 (87%)	^—
Not employed	12 (16%)	10 (13%)	^—

Data are shown as number (%). Values for 13 decedents (8 veterinary professionals without a specified category and 5 veterinary students) were excluded from the table. Because of rounding, some percentages do not total 100%. The NVDRS included data from 18 states during the study period (Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, and Virginia [2003–2014]; Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin [2004–2014]; Kentucky, New Mexico, and Utah [2005–2014]; Ohio [2010–2014]; and Michigan [2014]). The P values reflect the results of χ² analysis for a given variable; values of P < 0.05 were considered significant.

^a,b

Within a row, values with different superscripted letters were significantly different by the z test for proportions with Bonferroni correction (performed when significant differences were found by χ² analysis).

^{— =}

Data suppressed for protection of decedent confidentiality and compliance with NVDRS reporting requirements because of small numbers.