Table 3. Univariate analysis of risk factors associated with attempted suicide by self-poisoning versus accidental poisoning during the year 2019–2020.
| Poisoning | p- value | OR [CI95%] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-poisoning attempters (n = 2523) | Accidental poisoning survivors (n = 653) | Total (n = 3176) | ||||||
| no | % | no | % | no | % | |||
| Age (years) | ||||||||
| ≤25y | 1196 | 47.4 | 90 | 13.8 | 1286 | 40.5 | <0.001* | 6.97 [5.29–9.20] |
| >25-40y | 965 | 38.2 | 373 | 57.1 | 1338 | 42.1 | 0.001* | 1.36 [1.10–1.68] |
| >40y | 362 | 14.3 | 190 | 29.1 | 552 | 17.4 | - | 1.0 |
| Gender | ||||||||
| Male | 858 | 34.0 | 334 | 51.1 | 1192 | 37.5 | <0.001* | 1.0 |
| Female | 1665 | 66.0 | 319 | 48.9 | 1984 | 62.5 | 2.03[1.71–2.42] | |
| Residence | <0.001* | |||||||
| Rural | 1533 | 60.8 | 246 | 37.7 | 1779 | 52.6 | 2.56 [2.15–3.06] | |
| Urban | 990 | 39.2 | 407 | 62.3 | 1397 | 47.4 | 1.0 | |
| Occupation | ||||||||
| Working | 674 | 26.7 | 303 | 46.0 | 977 | 30.8 | - | 1.0 |
| Not working | 903 | 35.8 | 266 | 40.4 | 1363 | 36.6 | <0.001* | 1.59 [1.31–1.93] |
| A student | 946 | 37.5 | 90 | 13.7 | 1036 | 32.6 | <0.001* | 5.49 [4.26–7.08] |
| SES | ||||||||
| Low | 1750 | 69.4 | 197 | 30.2 | 1947 | 61.3 | <0.001* | 13.43 [8.82–20.47] |
| Medium | 732 | 29.0 | 394 | 60.3 | 1126 | 35.5 | <0.001* | 2.81 [1.86–4.25] |
| High | 41 | 1.6 | 62 | 9.5 | 103 | 3.2 | - | 1.0 |
*: significant SES: socioeconomic standard