Table 2.
Suicidal Thoughts, Plans, and Attempts in the Five Years Since Bariatric Surgery by Pre-surgery Lifetime History.a
| Pre-surgery history of suicidality | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Never | Brief passing thought | Had plan At least once to kill myself | Attempted to Kill myself | Since surgery totals | ||||||
|
Suicidality in the 5 years following surgery |
N | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) |
| Never | 1099 | (71.6) | 154 | (10.0) | 37 | (2.4) | 21 | (1.4) | 1311 | (85.5) |
| Brief passing thought | 35 | (2.3) | 79 | (5.2) | 29 | (1.9) | 18 | (1.2) | 161 | (10.5) |
| Had plan at least once to kill myself | 5 | (0.3) | 10 | (0.7) | 18 | (1.2) | 16 | (1.0) | 49 | (3.2) |
| Attempted to kill myself | 0 | (0.0) | 4 | (0.3) | 1 | (0.1) | 8 | (0.5) | 13 | (0.8) |
| Prior to surgery totals | 1139 | (74.3) | 247 | (16.1) | 85 | (5.5) | 63 | (4.1) | 1534 | |
a
Data obtained from the Suicidal Behavior Questionnaire-Revised.