Table 3.

Use of healthcare resources during 13 months' follow-up in participants contacted by telephone one month or three months after attempted suicide

		Intervention groups
Veriable	Control group (n=280)	Telephone contact at one month (n=107)	P value*	Telephone contact at three months (n=95)	P value*
Talked with general practitioner about suicide	204 (73)	82 (87)	0.004†	72 (88)	0.004‡
Psychotropics	115 (41)	43 (46)	0.38	30 (36)	0.36
Psychotherapy	104 (37)	42 (45)	0.18	31 (38)	0.96
Types of psychotropics:
Anxiolytics	16	15	0.33	15	0.69
Antidepressants	19	26		20
Admission to hospital for psychiatric reason	62 (22)	21 (22)	0.99	21 (24)	0.77
Mean (SD) No of admissions to hospital	0.39 (1)	0.30 (0.6)	0.41	0.29 (0.7)	0.42
Mean (SD) duration of hospital stay (days)	24 (32)	21 (13)§	0.79	27 (19)¶	0.82

^*Comparison with control group.

^†df=1, χ²=8.5.

^‡df=1, χ²=8.2.

^§95% confidence interval −17.8 to 12.0.

^¶95% confidence interval −18.0 to 22.5.