Table II. Characteristics of suicide attempters (for the 80 schizophrenics who had a history of suicide attempts [SA]).

Number of SAs	2.9	(SD=3.9)
Multiple SAs	44%	(35 patients)
History of hight-lethality SAs	51.2%	(41 patients)
Age at first SA (years)	24.3	(SD=8.8)
Psychiatric care beofre first SA	45%	(36 patients)
SA preceding current hospitalization	13.7%	(11 patients)