Table 5. Evidence of mental ill health (MH), evidence of suicidal behaviours (SB) and their co-occurrence, by sex and ICD-10 code mechanism of cause of death in coastal environments X2 (p value), Australia, 2005–2019.
Variable | Categories | Total (N = 666) | Sex | ICD-10 Code | |||||||||||
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Male (n = 473) | Female (n = 193) | Test statistic (P-value) | X80 (n = 289) | X71 (n = 204) | Other (n = 173) | Test statistic (P-value) | |||||||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | ||||
Evidence of Mental ill health | Yes | 409 | 61.4 | 275 | 67.2 | 134 | 32.8 | χ2 = 11.122 (p = 0.004) | 182 | 44.5 | 122 | 29.8 | 105 | 25.7 | χ2 = 0.798 p = 0.939 |
None | 66 | 9.9 | 57 | 86.4 | 9 | 13.6 | 28 | 42.4 | 22 | 33.3 | 16 | 24.2 | |||
Unknown | 191 | 28.6 | 141 | 73.8 | 50 | 26.2 | 79 | 41.4 | 60 | 31.4 | 52 | 27.2 | |||
Evidence of suicidal behaviours | Yes | 249 | 37.4 | 161 | 64.7 | 88 | 35.3 | χ2 = 8.967 (p = 0.011) | 102 | 41.0 | 86 | 34.5 | 61 | 24.5 | χ2 = 3.068 p = 0.546 |
None | 96 | 14.4 | 76 | 79.2 | 20 | 20.8 | 45 | 46.9 | 26 | 27.1 | 25 | 26.0 | |||
Unknown | 321 | 48.1 | 236 | 73.5 | 85 | 26.5 | 142 | 44.2 | 92 | 28.7 | 87 | 27.1 | |||
Co-occurrence | MH only | 43 | 6.5 | 32 | 74.7 | 11 | 25.6 | χ2 = 14.395 (p = 0.002) | 23 | 53.5 | 8 | 18.6 | 12 | 27.9 | χ2 = 5.199 (p = 0.519) |
SB only | 11 | 1.7 | 11 | 100.0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 45.5 | 3 | 27.3 | 3 | 27.3 | |||
MH + SB | 225 | 33.8 | 140 | 62.2 | 85 | 37.8 | 91 | 40.4 | 80 | 35.6 | 54 | 24.0 | |||
Neither | 53 | 8.0 | 45 | 84.9 | 8 | 15.1 | 21 | 39.6 | 19 | 35.8 | 13 | 24.5 | |||
Unknown* | 334 | 50.2 | 245 | 73.4 | 89 | 26.6 | * | 149 | 44.2 | 95 | 28.2 | 93 | 27.6 | * |
Note: After Bonferroni adjustment, significance was deemed at p = 0.0125. Bold type indicates significance.