3. RESULTS
Sociodemographic and other characteristics are shown in Table 2. A total
of 117 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and 120 healthy controls
matched for age and gender were included in this study (Fig 1). The mean
age was 47.51 years (SD=24.83) in suicide attempters of subdivided
schizophrenia group, 43.96 years (SD=18.33) in no history of the suicide
attempt of subdivided schizophrenia group, and 42.27 years (SD=29.11) in
the healthy control group (p=0.416). Of all participants 50.2% of them
were male and 49.8% were female (Table 2). As an expected and
unfortunate consequence of schizophrenia, a considerably higher
proportion of participants were unemployed (61.4% and 65.0% vs 20.0%;
p = 0.018) and single (71.9% and 58.3 vs 34.2; p = 0.043), compared to
control group. No other substantial difference was evaluated between
groups regarding the education and socioeconomic levels of the
participants (Table 2).