Table 4.

Severity of suicidal ideation in participants’ lifetime

Sr.No	Variable	Category	Frequency	Percentage
1	Frequency	Less than once a week	08	28
		Once a week	04	14
		2–5 times in week	04	14
		Daily or almost daily	08	28
		Many times each day	05	17
2	Duration	Fleeting – few seconds or minutes	07	24
		Less than 1 hour/some of the time	04	14
		1–4 hours/a lot of time	04	14
		4–8 hours/most of day	10	34
		More than 8 hours/persistent	05	14
3	Controllability	Easily able to control thoughts	06	21
		Can control thoughts with little difficulty	04	14
		Can control with some difficulty	08	28
		Can control thoughts with lot of difficulty	07	24
		Unable to control thoughts	04	14
4	Deterrents	Definitely stopped me attempting suicide	07	24
		Deterrents probably stopped you	08	28
		Uncertain that deterrents stopped you	02	07
		Deterrents most likely did not stop you	03	10
		Deterrents definitely did not stop you	09	31
5	Reasons for Ideation	Completely to get attention	01	03
		Mostly to end or stop the pain	19	65
		Completely to end or stop the pain	09	31
		Does not apply	01	03

Table 4 reveals the severity of suicidal ideation in their life time. About 28% of the respondents reported of experiencing suicidal ideation in less than once a week and daily or almost daily each and another 28% less than once a week. More than one-third reported duration of suicidal ideation was ranging from four to eight hours most of the day. Nearly one-fourth of them (24%) reported that they can control the suicidal thoughts with lot of difficulty. One-third reported that deterrents definitely did not stop them from attempting suicide, another 52% of them reported deterrents stopped them attempting suicide. A majority of them (65%) reported that in their lifetime they thought ending their life mostly due to end or stop the pain.