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Table 5 Individual SDQ items with significant differences between the suicide group and the accident group, and the suicide group and the community controls, respectively.

From: Differences between children and adolescents who commit suicide and their peers: A psychological autopsy of suicide victims compared to accident victims and a community sample

  

Suicide group (n = 39)

vs. Accident group (n = 43)

vs. Community controls (n = 410)

SDQ Single items

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

p

Mean

SD

p

SDQ-5

Often loses temper

.23

.54

.00

.00

<.01

.25

.53

.82

SDQ-6

Rather Solitary

.54

.79

.28

.55

.09

.33

.56

.04

SDQ-8

Many worries

.46

.64

.14

.41

.01

.23

.49

<.01

SDQ-9

Helpful if someone is hurt

1.62

.54

1.86

.47

.03*

1.70

.49

.31

SDQ-13

Often unhappy or depressed

.49

.76

.09

.37

<.01

.15

.39

<.01

SDQ-15

Easily distracted

.31

.66

.26

.58

.71

.57

.68

.02*

SDQ-19

Picked on or bullied

.36

.63

.16

.49

.12

.16

.45

.01

SDQ-22

Steals

.26

.55

.12

.39

.18

.03

.21

<.01

  1. *The suicide group was less helpful and less distracted
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

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