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Table 1 Demography, medical history, baseline data and adverse events by suicide behaviors (attempts or completed suicide)

From: Risk factors for suicide behaviors in the observational schizophrenia outpatient health outcomes (SOHO) study

Variable

Patients without behaviors (n = 8487)

Patients with behavors (n = 384)

Demographic data and medical history

Age (years) mean ± SD

40.1 ± 13.1

38.6 ± 11.8

Male gender (%pat)

57.8%

59.1%

Employment (% pat)

19.7%

17.0%

Social contacts in the previous 4 weeks (% pat)

32.5%

36.8%

Time since first contact (years) mean ± SD

11.4 ± 11.0

11.2 ± 10.2

Age at first contact (years) mean ± SD

28.8 ± 10.6

27.4 ± 10.0

History of attempts (% pat)

23.5%

63.0%

Attempts in the last 6 months (% pat)

3.8%

22.7%

Hospitalizations due to schizophrenia (% pat)

30.7%

48.0%

Concomitant treatment (% pat)

19.0%

20.6%

Anticholinergics

18.1%

31.0%

Antidepressants

36.4%

49.0%

Anxiolyticis/hypnotics

9.8%

14.1%

Mood stabilizer

  

Baseline characteristics* (mean ± SD)

Overall symptom score

4.4 ± 1.0

4.5 ± 1.0

Positive symptom score

3.8 ± 1.4

3.9 ± 1.4

Negative symptom score

4.1 ± 1.3

4.2 ± 1.3

Depressive symptom score

3.4 ± 1.3

3.9 ± 1.4

Cognitive symptom score

3.8 ± 1.3

3.9 ± 1.3

BMI

26.2 ± 4.9

26.0 ± 4.8

Adverse events (% pat)

Extrapyramidal symptoms

37.4%

41.7%

Tardive dyskinesia

9.1%

12.4%

Loss of libido

46.0%

50.1%

Impotence

34.1%

40.3%

Amenorrohea

10.5%

17.2%

Galactorrohea

1.9%

5.0%

Gynecomastia

2.9%

5.8%

  1. BMI body mass index; Pat patients.
  2. * These data are expressed as mean ± SD and represent CGI-SCH scores.