Table 5. Associations of inpatient stays and outpatient treatment with suicide.
Type of treatment | Suicide group (M, SD) | Control group (M, SD) | P value1 |
---|---|---|---|
Number of stays at inpatient wards: | |||
Hospital wards, before start of study period2 | 1.2 (3.1) | 2.1 (7.4) | 0.70 |
Hospital wards, after start of study period | 2.4 (2.5) | 2.2 (2.3) | 0.69 |
DPC wards, before start of study period | 0.32 (1.5) | 0.22 (0.8) | 0.99 |
DPC wards, after start of study period | 0.7 (1.3) | 1.5 (4.6) | 0.62 |
Wards for alcohol/ drug addiction, before start of study period | 0.0 (0) | 0.01 (0.09) | 0.56 |
Wards for alcohol/ drug addiction after start of study period | 0.0 (0) | 0.18 (0.9) | 0.12 |
All inpatient wards, total, before start of study period | 1.6 (4.2) | 2.3 (7.6) | 0.75 |
All inpatient wards, total, after start of study period | 3.1 (3.2) | 3.9 (5.5) | 0.42 |
All inpatient wards, all time periods | 4.6 (5.9) | 6.2 (11.7) | 0.48 |
Number of years with outpatient treatment in the study period | 1.5 (1.3) | 1.9 (1.8) | 0.53 |
1Mann-Whitney U-test, p-values are uncorrected for multiple tests.
2Start of study period was January 2008. DPC—District psychiatric center.