Table 1.
Characteristics of the suicide cases reported to the supervisory authority across the three cohorts
| Cohort 1 (n=279) | Cohort 2 (n=436) | Cohort 3 (n=316) | ||
| Characteristic | ||||
| Age, years | Range | 15–95 | 13–93 | 11–95 |
| Percentile 25 | 36 | 33 | 29 | |
| Percentile 50 | 50 | 49 | 42 | |
| Percentile 75 | 64 | 61 | 57 | |
| Gender | Men | 166 (60) | 283 (65) | 213 (67) |
| Women | 113 (40) | 152 (35) | 103 (33) | |
| Reporting healthcare service | Psychiatric care | 195 (70) | 290 (67) | 233 (74) |
| Primary care | 47 (17) | 94 (22) | 56 (18) | |
| Somatic care | 21 (7) | 33 (8) | 16 (5) | |
| Other | 16 (6) | 18 (4) | 11 (3) | |
| Days between last contact with healthcare services and death | Range | 0–70 | 0–88 | 0–240 |
| Percentile 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Percentile 50 | 2 | 4 | 3 | |
| Percentile 75 | 7 | 10 | 9 | |
| Receiving inpatient care at time of death | 45 (16) | 36 (8) | 44 (14) | |
| Receiving compulsory psychiatric treatment at the time of death* | 15 (5) | 22 (5) | 20 (6) | |
| Major psychiatric diagnosis documented and coded in accordance with ICD-10 in patients’ records | Total (F00–F98) | 228 (82) | 371 (85) | 288 (91) |
| Affective disorder (F30) | 119 (43) | 153 (35) | 105 (33) | |
| Anxiety disorder (F40) | 35 (13) | 77 (18) | 60 (19) | |
| Substance abuse (F10) | 29 (10) | 51 (12) | 37 (12) | |
| Psychosis (F20) | 22 (8) | 36 (8) | 30 (10) | |
| Personality disorder (F60) | 12 (4) | 13 (3) | 13 (4) | |
| Attention deficit disorder (F90) | 1 (0) | 13 (3) | 12 (4) | |
| Autism spectrum (F84) | 3 (1) | 13 (3) | 9 (3) | |
| Other | 7 (2) | 15 (3) | 22 (7) | |
| Suicide-risk assessment documented in patients’ records in the 3 months before death | Absent | 135 (49) | 108 (25) | 119 (38) |
| Low | 61 (22) | 171 (39) | 91 (29) | |
| Elevated, not acute | 61 (22) | 116 (27) | 75 (24) | |
| High/acute | 19 (7) | 41 (9) | 31 (10) | |
| Prior suicide attempt | 120 (46) | 204 (47) | 154 (49) | |
| Suicide method | Hanging | 112 (40) | 160 (37) | 128 (41) |
| Intoxication | 42 (15) | 110 (25) | 53 (17) | |
| Jumping | 21 (8) | 13 (3) | 19 (6) | |
| Train | 11 (4) | 35 (8) | 22 (7) | |
| Drowning | 15 (5) | 28 (6) | 13 (4) | |
| Shooting | 10 (4) | 27 (6) | 14 (4) | |
| Others | 13 (8) | 12 (3) | 16 (5) | |
| Not reported | 51 (18) | 50 (12) | 51 (16) | |
| Location of suicide | Home | 154 (56) | 248 (57) | 161 (51) |
| Hospital | 23 (8) | 22 (5) | 33 (10) | |
| Other | 53 (19) | 131 (30) | 83 (26) | |
| Not reported | 44 (16) | 35 (8) | 39 (12) | |
The data in the table comprise numbers and percentages, n (%). Cohort 1: cases reported in 2006–2007, cohort 2: cases reported in 2015 and cohort 3: cases reported in 2017–2019.
*Includes both inpatient and outpatient compulsory treatment.
ICD-10, International Classification of Diseases and related Health Problems, 10th revision.