Table 1.
Table 1 Structured questions posed in the interview
| Area I. Questions concerning family relationships and psychosocial situation |
| Theme 1. Motives for suicide attempt |
| - Describe the motives that led you to attempt suicide. |
| Theme 2. Ability to seek help |
| - Did you try to get help and advice, and to communicate your needs, if and when you had difficulties in your everyday life? |
| Theme 3. Mental health, alcohol problems, attempted suicide or suicide among family members |
| - Is there anyone in your family with a mental health problem? |
| - Is there anyone in your family with an alcohol problem? |
| - Has anyone in your family made a suicide attempt? |
| - Has anyone in your family committed suicide? |
| Theme 4. Violence |
| - Have you ever suffered physical abuse from your family or a partner? |
| - Have you ever suffered psychological abuse from your family or a partner? |
| Theme 5. Support from family and partners |
| - Describe your family situation. |
| - Describe your relationships with your family members |
| - Have you ever been in need of financial support from your family or a partner? |
| - Have you ever been in need of psychosocial support from your family or a partner? |
| - Have you ever received any financial support from your family or a partner? |
| - Have you ever received any psychosocial support from your family or a partner? |
| Area II. Questions related to various types of suicidal communication |
| - Did you tell your family members, friends and/or neighbours explicitly that you had the intention of taking your life? [direct verbal communication] |
| - Did you tell your family members, friends and/or neighbours implicitly that you thought life was not worth living, or that you wanted to disappear from this life, or take a break from this life, that you saw death as a solution, etc? [indirect verbal communication] |
| - Did you prepare for the suicide attempt in any way (e.g. by saving pills or buying pesticides or raticides, or writing a farewell letter)? [direct non-verbal communication] |
| - Did you do anything like paying bills, saying goodbye, writing your will, disrupting ties with your family, deliberately self-isolating yourself or withdrawing once you had decided to take your own life? [indirect non-verbal communication] |
| Area III. Questions concerning the suicidal process |
| Theme 1. Previous suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts |
| - Had you ever attempted suicide before? |
| - When did you first think about suicide? |
| - When did you first experience mild suicidal thoughts, fleeting and sporadic suicidal thoughts, pressing and distinct suicidal thoughts, and constant suicidal thoughts? |
| Theme 2. Suicide plan and probability of detection after suicide attempt |
| - Did you have a plan before attempting suicide? |
| - What was your plan? |
| - How long before the attempt did you make the plan? |
| - Did you do anything to prevent someone from finding you? |
| - Was anyone near you at the time of the suicide attempt? |
| Theme 3. Method |
| - What method did you use to attempt suicide? |
| - Why? |
| - How did you get hold of what you needed? From neighbours, at home, purchased? |
| Theme 4. Retrospective feelings after the suicide attempts |
| - How did you feel after the suicide attempt(s)? |