Table 1.
Main characteristics of decedents from suicide and other causes in a cohort of 54 350 community mental health centre patients in the Veneto Region (Italy)
| Deaths | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall (n = 54 350) | Alive (n = 45 174) | Non-suicide (n = 8769) | Suicide (n = 407) | p-Value* | |
| Gender, n (%) | <0.001 | ||||
| Male | 22 767 (41.9) | 18 497 (40.9) | 4021 (45.9) | 249 (61.2) | |
| Female | 31 583 (58.1) | 26 677 (59.1) | 4748 (54.1) | 158 (38.8) | |
| Age at death, n (%) | <0.001 | ||||
| <35 years | – | – | 54 (0.6) | 42 (10.3) | |
| (35, 44) years | – | – | 221 (2.5) | 75 (18.4) | |
| (45, 54) years | – | – | 666 (7.6) | 124 (30.5) | |
| (55, 64) years | – | – | 1231 (14.0) | 84 (20.6) | |
| ⩾65 years | – | – | 6597 (75.2) | 82 (20.1) | |
| Diagnostic group, n (%) | <0.001 | ||||
| Schizophrenia and related disorders | 12 996 (23.9) | 10 728 (23.7) | 2175 (24.8) | 93 (22.9) | |
| Other affective disorders | 16 434 (30.2) | 13 582 (30.1) | 2708 (30.9) | 144 (35.4) | |
| Neurotic, stress-related disorder | 9689 (17.8) | 8716 (19.3) | 938 (10.7) | 35 (8.6) | |
| Other personality disorders | 4552 (8.4) | 4000 (8.9) | 506 (5.8) | 46 (11.3) | |
| Bipolar disorder | 1950 (3.6) | 1549 (3.4) | 374 (4.3) | 27 (6.6) | |
| Borderline personality disorder | 416 (0.8) | 384 (0.9) | 25 (0.3) | 7 (1.7) | |
| Substance use disorders | 1160 (2.1) | 884 (2.0) | 256 (2.9) | 20 (4.9) | |
| Other diagnoses | 7153 (13.2) | 5331 (11.8) | 1787 (20.4) | 35 (8.6) | |
| Year of first contact, n (%) | 0.05 | ||||
| <2000 | 9235 (17.0) | 7318 (16.2) | 1847 (21.1) | 70 (17.2) | |
| (2000, 2003) | 8487 (15.6) | 7048 (15.6) | 1365 (15.6) | 74 (18.2) | |
| (2004, 2007) | 18 676 (34.4) | 15 971 (35.4) | 2569 (29.3) | 136 (33.4) | |
| 2008 | 17 952 (33.0) | 14 837 (32.8) | 2988 (34.1) | 127 (31.2) | |
*
p-Value related to the χ2 test between comparison among deaths amount due to suicide and non-suicide.