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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2017 Aug 17;48(5):570–579. doi: 10.1111/sltb.12374

Table 2.

Incident-Related Factor Attempter
Observed (Expected)
Completer
Observed (Expected)
Chi-Square Test
Month 14.59
 January 58 (58.7) 16 (15.3)
 February 58 (57.1) 14 (14.9)
 March 58 (58.7) 16 (15.3)
 April 66 (69.1) 21 (17.9)
 May 56 (57.1) 16 (14.9)
 June 76 (76.2) 20 (19.8)
 July 61 (69.8) 27 (18.2)
 August 81 (73.0) 11 (19.0)
 September 86 (81.8) 17 (21.2)
 October 43 (46.0) 15 (12.0)
 November 47 (42.9) 7 (11.1)
 December 41 (40.5) 10 (10.5)

Day of Week 3.88
 Sunday 89 (96.0) 32 (25.0)
 Monday 112 (114.2) 32 (29.8)
 Tuesday 132 (127.7) 29 (33.3)
 Wednesday 101 (98.4) 23 (25.6)
 Thursday 117 (116.6) 30 (30.4)
 Friday 93 (91.2) 22 (23.8)
 Saturday 85 (84.9) 22 (22.1)

Time of Day 35.68***
 0:00–2:59 40 (42.7) 14 (11.3)
 3:00–5:59 22 (32.4) 19 (8.6)
 6:00–8:59 38 (45.9) 20 (12.1)
 9:00–11:59 97 (94.1) 22 (24.9)
 12:00–14:59 149 (131.3) 17 (34.7)
 15:00–17:59 132 (128.9) 31 (34.1)
 18:00–20:59 131 (132.9) 37 (35.1)
 21:00–23:59 79 (79.9) 22 (21.1)

Method 193.18***
 Cutting 253 (201.1) 5 (56.9)
 Overdose 160 (128.6) 5 (36.4)
 Hanging/Self-Strangulation 238 (321.2) 174 (90.8)

Note.

***

p < .001;

**

p < .01;

*

p < .05;

Ns = 963–1036