Post-hospitalization course and predictive signs of suicidal behavior of suicidal patients admitted to a psychiatric hospital: a 2-year prospective follow-up study

Table 3 Suicidal behavior recurrence and measures of physical and mental conditions in the follow-up assessments

	1^st assessment	2^nd assessment	3^rd assessment	4^th assessment
Number of SB as a whole ^a	1.40	1.16	1.12	1.38
Number of SB with SI ^a	0.64	0.73	0.61	0.46
SF-8 PCS score (SD) ^b	47.9 (9.4)	48.7 (8.8)	47.6 (9.0)	48.1 (7.9)
SF-8 MCS score (SD) ^{b, c}	37.0 (10.8)	40.3 (12.1)	41.2 (9.7)	42.6 (9.5)
BHS 4-item version score (SD) ^b,c	2.61 (1.26)	2.30 (1.42)	2.28 (1.34)	2.08 (1.42)

SB: suicidal behavior, SI: suicide intent, Number of SB (with SI): number of SB (with SI) during the previous 6 month period, SF-8 PCS score: SF-8 physical component summary score, SF-8 MCS score: SF-8 mental component summary score, BHS: Beck Hopelessness Scale.
^a Means of 89 not-deceased subjects with the whole 2-year clinical course data set.
^b Means of 65 subjects with the complete data set.
^c Repeated measures ANOVAs found a significant time effect and linear component in SF-8 MCS scores (Wilks’ lambda=0.798. F_{3, 62}=5.22, p=0.003 and F_{1, 64}=14.83, p<0.001, respectively) and BHS 4-item version scores (Wilks’s lambda=0.877, F_{3, 62}=3.12, p=0.42 and F_{1, 64}=7.00, p=0.010, respectively).

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