Table 2.
Twelve-month prevalence of suicide ideation, plans, and attempts in the WMH surveys
| In the total sample |
Among 12-month ideators |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ideation | Plan | Attempt | Plan | Attempt | Attempt/Plan | Attempt/No plan | ||||||||
| % | (se) | % | (se) | % | (se) | % | (se) | % | (se) | % | (se) | % | (se) | |
| I. Developed countries | ||||||||||||||
| Female | 2.2 | (0.1) | 0.6 | (0.1) | 0.3 | (0.0) | 27.4 | (2.1) | 14.6 | (1.6) | 34.6 | (3.8) | 7.0 | (1.4) |
| Male | 1.7 | (0.1) | 0.5 | (0.1) | 0.3 | (0.0) | 31.0 | (3.0) | 15.8 | (2.3) | 30.0 | (5.3) | 9.4 | (1.8) |
| Total | 2.0* | (0.1) | 0.6 | (0.0) | 0.3 | (0.0) | 28.9 | (1.8) | 15.1 | (1.4) | 32.6 | (3.3) | 8.0 | (1.1) |
| (n)1 | (1064/51,771) | (327/51,771) | (173/51,771) | (327/1064) | (173/1064) | (110/327) | (63/737) | |||||||
| II. Developing countries | ||||||||||||||
| Female | 2.4 | (0.1) | 0.8 | (0.1) | 0.5 | (0.0) | 33.6 | (2.0) | 19.2 | (1.6) | 41.5 | (3.6) | 7.9 | (1.4) |
| Male | 1.6 | (0.1) | 0.6 | (0.1) | 0.4 | (0.1) | 34.8 | (2.8) | 21.7 | (2.9) | 42.2 | (5.7) | 10.7 | (3.0) |
| Total | 2.1* | (0.1) | 0.7* | (0.0) | 0.4 | (0.0) | 34.1 | (1.6) | 20.2 | (1.4) | 41.8 | (3.2) | 9.0 | (1.4) |
| (n) 1 | (1197/56,893) | (414/56,893) | (236/56,893) | (414/1197) | (236/1197) | (176/414) | (60/783) | |||||||
*
Significant gender difference at the .05 level, two-sided test
1
numerator n refers to the number of cases with each suicide outcome, denominator n refers to the number of cases in the total sample or in the conditional sample among ideators, ideators with a plan and ideators without a plan