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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2020 Jan 7;50(3):367–383. doi: 10.1017/S003329171900391X

Table 2.

Prevalence rates for passive suicidal ideation by sample type

Sample Type k N Prevalence Estimates
Heterogeneity Analyses
% 95% CI I2 P
Epidemiological
 Lifetime 8 99,968 10.57% 9.52% – 11.72% 95.36% <.001
 1 Year 9 40,292 5.81% 4.29% – 7.82% 98.18% <.001
 1 Month 4 42,719 3.77% 2.23% – 6.31% 97.52% <.001
 1 Week/Current 5 11,546 2.35% 0.78% – 6.89% 98.66% <.001
Community
 Lifetime 19 109,468 12.53% 10.91% – 14.35% 97.74% <.001
 1 Year 20 64,541 9.84% 8.03% – 12.01% 98.07% <.001
 1 Month 8 43,855 5.74% 3.77% – 8.66% 96.36% <.001
 1 Week/Current 9 20,267 3.48% 1.90% – 6.27% 98.37% <.001
At-Risk/Mixed/Medical
 Lifetime 23 10,754 25.36% 18.65% – 33.49% 97.65% <.001
 1 Year 9 2,509 24.99% 13.93% – 40.67% 97.93% <.001
 1 Month 7 10,582 8.67% 5.28% – 13.92% 97.44% <.001
 1 Week/Current 5 348 17.93% 11.74% – 26.39% 61.82% .03
Psychiatric
 Lifetime 16 3,373 47.03% 36.31% – 58.03% 96.70% <.001
 1 Year 9 21,385 35.63% 26.14% – 46.41% 99.09% <.001
 1 Month 11 16,722 37.50% 26.94% – 49.41% 99.05% <.001
 1 Week/Current 14 1,856 33.57% 24.57% – 43.95% 93.42% <.001

Note. CI = confidence interval; k = number of unique effects; N = total number of participants included in pooled analyses