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Table 1 Participant demographics by suicide ideation and planning

From: Sensation seeking as a potential screening tool for suicidality in adolescence

 

N

Suicide planning (N = 80)

Suicide ideation (N = 207)

n

%

p-value

n

%

p-value

Gender

 Male

852

37

4.3

0.495

90

10.6

0.769

 Female

1,153

42

3.6

 

116

10.1

 

Grade

 1st middle school

189

14

7.4

<0.01

32

16.9

<0.01

 2nd middle school

250

16

6.4

 

43

17.5

 

 3rd middle school

194

10

5.2

 

22

11.4

 

 1st high school

607

18

3.0

 

50

8.3

 

 2nd high school

555

14

2.5

 

35

6.3

 

 3rd high school

213

7

3.3

 

24

11.3

 

Family Income

 Low

80

7

8.8

<0.01

12

15.0

<0.01

 Lower-middle

300

15

5.0

 

38

12.7

 

 Middle

1,064

28

2.6

 

80

7.5

 

 Upper-middle

430

24

5.6

 

59

13.8

 

 High

112

5

4.5

 

15

13.4

 

No. of Siblings

 1

242

15

6.2

0.093

29

12.0

0.165

 2

1,335

45

3.4

 

125

9.4

 

 ≥ 3

418

19

4.5

 

51

12.2

 

 Sensation-seeking scorea

4.0 (2.0–6.0)

5.0 (3.0–6.0)

<0.01

5.0 (3.0–6.0)

<0.01

Symptoms

 Non-depressive

1,683

31

1.8

<0.01

101

6.0

<0.01

 Depressive

327

48

14.7

 

105

32.1

 
  1. Note: Percentages are based on different numbers of participants depending on frequency of answering
  2. aMedian and interquartile range (Q1-Q3), P-value for Wilcoxon rank sum test