Table 2.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of the acute and non-acute suicidal intention groups.
| Total N = 682 | Acute n = 262 | Non-acute n = 420 | Statistics | p | Cohen’s d | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | ||||
| Age | 30.03 | 6.46 | 30.75 | 7.44 | 29.58 | 5.72 | 12.06 | 0.034 | |
| Gender (n, %) | 5.41 | 0.067 | |||||||
| Women | 605 | 88.71 | 225 | 85.88 | 380 | 90.48 | |||
| Men | 75 | 11.00 | 37 | 14.12 | 38 | 9.05 | |||
| Others | 2 | 0.29 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.48 | |||
| ASADI-La | 210.32 | 81.07 | 223 | 83.02 | 202.20 | 78.85 | 3.34 | <0.001 | 0.263 |
| C-SSRSb | 3.22 | 1.52 | 3.45 | 1.58 | 3.09 | 1.46 | 2.92 | 0.004 | 0.232 |
| C-SSRSb ≥4 (n, %) | 268 | 39.30 | 126 | 48.09 | 142 | 33.81 | 13.80 | <0.001 | |
| PHQ-9c | 10.90 | 6.93 | 12.9 | 7.13 | 9.66 | 6.51 | 5.99 | <0.001 | 0.478 |
| GAD-7d | 8.32 | 5.79 | 9.78 | 5.87 | 7.41 | 5.56 | 5.29 | <0.001 | 0.418 |
| ISASe | 71.35 | 120.00 | 93.6 | 146.03 | 57.54 | 98.29 | 3.52 | <0.001 | 0.289 |
| Suicide attempt (n, %) | 167 | 24.49 | 73 | 27.86 | 94 | 22.38 | 2.72 | 0.099 | |
Acute (2a = yes, 2b = yes) and non-acute (2a = yes, 2b = no) groups were divided based on responses to the questions 2a (In your lifetime, have you ever experienced a drastic increase in your intent to kill yourself?) and 2b (if yes, did this drastic increase in intent to kill yourself occur over the course of hours or days, not over the course of weeks or months?); aASADI-L, acute suicidal affective disturbance inventory-lifetime; bColumbia-suicide severity rating scale (C-SSRS), lifetime suicide ideation severity; cpatient health questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9); dgeneralized anxiety disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7); einventory of statements about self-injury (ISAS); t-statistics were used to compare the means of two groups and Chi-square statistics were used to compare categorical variables.