Table 3.

Severity of suicidal ideation among persons with AUD in the last month (N=29)

Sr.No	Variable	Category	Frequency	Percentage
1	Frequency	Less than once a week	10	34
		Once a week	07	24
		2–5 times in week	09	31
		Daily or almost daily	03	10
2	Duration	Fleeting– few seconds or minutes	09	30
		Less than 1 hour/some of the time	13	45
		1–8 hours/a lot of time	06	20
		More than 8 hours/persistent	01	03
3	Controllability	Can control thoughts with little difficulty	08	27
		Can control with some difficulty	08	28
		Can control thoughts with lot of difficulty	10	35
		Unable to control thoughts	02	07
		Does not attempt to control thoughts	01	3
4	Deterrents	Definitely stopped me attempting suicide	11	38
		Deterrents probably stopped me attempting	13	45
		Uncertain that deterrents stopped me	01	03
		Deterrents most likely did not stop me	03	10
		Does not apply	01	03
5	Reasons for Ideation	To get attention	03	10
		Mostly to end or stop the pain	24	82
		Completely to end or stop the pain	02	07
		Does not apply	01	03

Table 3 shows the severity of suicidal ideation in the past one month. More than one-third (34%) of them experienced suicidal ideation less than once in a week, 31% of them experienced it 2-5 times in a week. Nearly half (45%) of the respondents reported that the duration of suicidal ideations was less than 1 houror sometimes in the last month. More than one-third (35%) were able to control the suicidal thoughts with lot of difficultyand 28% of them were able to control the suicidal thoughts with some difficulty.Nearly half (45%) of the respondents reported that the deterrents probably stopped them attempting suicide and 38% reported that the deterrents definitely stopped them attempting suicide. Majority (83%) of the respondents reported that the reason for wanting to die or killing themselves was to mostly to end or stop pain which they were undergoing.