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Table 1 Prevalence of parental psychopathology among suicidality outcomes

From: Association between parental psychopathology and suicidal behavior among adult offspring: results from the cross-sectional South African Stress and Health survey

Parental disorder (n)

In the total sample

Among those with suicidal Ideation

%1(SE) with parent disorder among:

%1(SE) with parent disorder among:

%1(SE) with parent disorder among:

%1(SE) with parent disorder among:

Attempt

No attempt

Ideation

No ideation

Plan

No plan

Attempt

No attempt

Depression (65)

0.9 (0.7)

1.5 (0.3)

1.6 (0.7)

1.5 (0.3)

1.0 (0.6)

2.7 (1.3)

0.9 (0.7)

2.5 (1.2)

Panic (275)

14.2 (3.9)

6.1 (0.8)

9.1 (1.7)

6.0 (0.8)

14.5 (3.4)

6.5 (1.8)

14.2 (3.9)

6.6 (1.7)

GAD (62)

2.3 (1.3)

1.4 (0.3)

3.0 (0.9)

1.3 (0.3)

3.1 (1.6)

3.4 (1.8)

2.3 (1.3)

2.2 (1.1)

Substance abuse (162)

8.0 (2.2)

3.6 (0.4)

5.7 (1.1)

3.5 (0.4)

5.0 (1.7)

7.4 (2.4)

8.0 (2.2)

5.6 (1.8)

Anti-social personality disorder (148)

7.6 (2.1)

3.3 (0.4)

5.4 (1.1)

3.2 (0.4)

6.5 (1.4)

7.7 (3.0)

7.6 (2.1)

6.4 (2.4)

Suicide (Same-sex parent) (71)

3.0 (1.8)

1.6 (0.3)

4.2 (1.1)

1.4 (0.3)

2.5 (1.6)

7.3 (3.8)

3.0 (1.8)

7.1 (3.8)

Number of parental disorders

1

18.4 (3.4)

9.3 (0.7)

15.5 (2.0)

9.1 (0.7)

17.1 (3.5)

19.8 (5.2)

18.4 (3.4)

17.2 (4.9)

2+

8.1 (2.6)

3.2 (0.4)

5.5 (1.1)

3.1 (0.4)

6.6 (1.7)

6.3 (2.2)

8.1 (2.6)

5.1 (1.6)

(N 2,%)

(140, 2.9%)

(4175, 97.1%)

(394, 9.1%)

(3921, 90.9%)

(171, 43.4%)

(223, 56.6%)

(140, 35.5%)

(254, 64.5%)

  1. 1Percentage (%) represents the percentage of people with the parent disorder among the cases with the outcome variable indicated in the column header. Prevalence estimates are from personyear data. For example: the first cell shows that 0.9% of those who attempted suicide had at least one parent with MDE.
  2. 2 N represents the number of cases with the outcome variable, followed by the applicable percentage.