Suicidality and depression among adult patients admitted in general medical facilities in Kenya

Table 2 Total Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)-II scores vs severity of suicide symptoms

	BDI-II score				Total of 1,2,3	Total	P value^a
	No	Yes
	0	1	2	3
0 to 13: no depression	1,875 (96.1%)	73 (3.7%)	3 (0.15%)	1 (0.05%)	3.9	1,952 (100%)	χ² = 6.976E^2a, df = 9, P < 0.000
14 to 19: mild depression	270 (81.1%	57 (17.1%)	3 (0.9%)	3 (0.9%)	18.9	333 (100%)
20 to 28: moderate depression	127 (67.9%)	56 (30%)	3 (1.6%)	1 (0.5%)	32.1	187 (100%)
29 to 63: severe depression	23 (32.4%)	29 (40.8%)	10 (14.1%)	9 (12.7%)	67.6	71 (100%)
Total	2,295 (90.2%)	215 (8.5%)	19 (0.7%)	14 (0.6%)		2,543 (100%)

BDI-II scores: 0 = I do not have thoughts of killing myself; 1 = I have thoughts of killing myself, but I'd not carry them out; 2 = I'd like to kill myself; 3 = I'd kill myself if I had a chance.
^aFrequency of suicide symptoms significantly increased with severity of depression.
df = degrees of freedom.

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