Table 1.
Demographics by Outcome of Initial Suicide Attempt
| Total | Death on First Attempt |
Death on Subsequent Attempt |
Alive or Death From Other Cause |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N=813 | n=20 | n=9 | n=784 | ||||||
| Characteristic | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | p-value |
| Age (years) | 18 | 3.3 | 19.3 | 2.9 | 19.1 | 2.2 | 17.9 | 3.3 | 0.0978 |
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Sex (male) | 258 | 31.7 | 16 | 80.0 | 7 | 77.8 | 235 | 30.0 | <0.0001 |
| Method of index attempt | |||||||||
| Hanging/asphyxiation | 24 | 3.0 | 1 | 5.0 | 23 | 2.9 | |||
| Firearms/explosives | 27 | 3.3 | 17 | 85.0 | 5 | 55.6 | 5 | 0.6 | |
| Medication Overdose | 480 | 59.0 | 2 | 10.0 | 1 | 11.1 | 477 | 60.8 | |
| Non-medication Overdose | 30 | 3.7 | 1 | 11.1 | 29 | 3.7 | |||
| Poisoning | 19 | 2.3 | 1 | 11.1 | 18 | 2.3 | |||
| Motor vehicle accident | 13 | 1.6 | 13 | 1.7 | |||||
| Cutting/piercing | 198 | 24.4 | 1 | 11.1 | 197 | 25.1 | |||
| Other | 22 | 2.7 | 22 | 2.8 | |||||
| Type of index attempt management | |||||||||
| Medical hospitalization | 194 | 23.9 | 2 | 10.0 | 3 | 33.3 | 189 | 24.1 | |
| Surgical Hospitalization | 10 | 1.2 | 1 | 5.0 | 1 | 11.1 | 8 | 1.0 | |
| Psychiatric hospitalization | 351 | 43.2 | 1 | 5.0 | 3 | 33.3 | 347 | 44.3 | |
| No hospitalization | 341 | 41.9 | 18 | 90.0 | 4 | 44.4 | 319 | 40.7 | |
| Index attempt after-care follow-up | <0.0001 | ||||||||
| Present | 567 | 70.0 | - | - | 4 | 44.4 | 563 | 71.8 | |
| Absent | 226 | 30.0 | - | - | 5 | 55.6 | 221 | 28.2 | |