Table 4.
Summary of risk and protective factors associated with death by suicide among previous attempters.
| Demographic factors | Contextual features of the prior attempt |
|---|---|
| Older age | Multiple suicide attempts |
| Male sex | Discharged/transferred to a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric unit of a hospital |
| White race | Discharged/transferred to another type of institution for inpatient care |
| Higher median household income | Others persons seeking consultation |
| Procedures | Methods of attempt and associated diagnoses/comorbidities |
|---|---|
| Non-operative intubation and irrigation | Accident poisoning by drugs, medicinal substances, and biologicals (−) |
| Other operations on bones, except facial bones | Poisoning and toxic effects of drugs with major comorbid condition (MCC) |
| Operations on Esophagus | Toxic effects of alcohol |
| Operations on penis | Poisoning by primarily systematic agents |
| Operations on tongue | Accidental poisoning by other solid and liquid substances, gases, and vapors |
| Operations on breast | Open wound of other and unspecified sites except limbs |
| Aortic and heart assistant procedures except pulsation balloon w/o MCC | Suicide attempt by hanging |
| Injury undetermined whether accidentally or purposely inflicted (−) | |
| Other and unspecified disorders of back (−) | |
| Other nonorganic psychoses | |
| Other psychosocial circumstances | |
| Organic sleep disorders | |
| Human immunodeficiency virus | |
| Multiple sclerosis | |
| Seizures w/o MCC | |
| Disorders of the pancreas except malignancy w/o MCC |
Entries in italics were not selected in the final Cox proportional hazards model. A minus sign (−) indicates a protective factor in which this characteristic was associated with lower risk of subsequent mortality.