Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of suicide attempters, patients with psychiatric diseases and healthy individuals in a Mexican population.
| Characteristics |
All n = 143 |
Healthy controls n = 56 |
Psychiatric patients n = 31 |
Suicide attempt n = 56 |
Statistics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | |||||
| Males | 80 (55.6) | 36 (64.3) | 19 (61.3) | 25 (43.6) | X2 = 5.30, p = 0.07 |
| Females | 63 (44.4) | 20 (35.7) | 12 (38.7) | 31 (56.4) | |
| Occupation | |||||
| Unemployed | 23 (16.1) | 3 (5.4) | 9 (29.0) | 11 (19.6) | X2 = 42.62, p < 0.001 |
| Home | 36 (25.2) | 8 (14.3) | 15 (48.4) | 13 (23.2) | |
| Student | 16 (11.2) | 5 (8.9) | 1 (3.2) | 10 (17.9) | |
| Part-time employment | 25 (17.5) | 9 (16.1) | 4 (12.9) | 12 (21.4) | |
| Full-time employment | 43 (30.1) | 31 (55.4) | 2 (6.5) | 10 (17.9) | |
| Marital statuss | |||||
| Married | 61 (42.7) | 41 (73.2) | 3 (9.7) | 17 (30.4) | |
| Single | 74 (51.7) | 12 (16.2) | 27 (87.1) | 35 (62.5) | |
| Widowed | 1 (0.7) | 1 (1.8) | 0 | 0 | X2 = 43.34, p < 0.001 |
| Separated/divorced | 7 (4.9) | 2 (3.6) | 1 (3.2) | 4 (7.1) | |
| Education | |||||
| <6 year of schooling | 27 (18.9) | 10 (17.9) | 10 (32.3) | 7 (12.5) | X2 = 5.14, p = 0.76 |
| >6 years of schooling | 116 (81.1) | 46 (82.1) | 21 (67.7) | 49 (87.5) | |
| Alcohol consumption | |||||
| Yes | 68 (47.6) | 35 (62.5) | 3 (9.7) | 30 (44.1) | X2 = 23.66, p < 0.001 |
| No | 75 (52.4) | 21 (37.5) | 28 (37.3) | 26 (34.7) | |
| Cannabis use | |||||
| Yes | 10 (7) | 0 | 2 (6.5) | 8 (14.3) | X2 = 8.8, p = 0.01 |
| No | 133 (93) | 56 (100.0) | 29 (93.5) | 48 (85.7) | |
| Cigarette smoking | |||||
| Yes | 16 (11.2) | 0 | 5 (16.1) | 11 (19.6) | X2 = 11.84, p = 0.003 |
| No | 127 (88.8) | 56 (100) | 26 (83.9) | 45 (80.4) | |
Numbers in bold show significant statistical difference.