Table 1 Sample characteristics (N = 706).

From: Inpatients with a history of suicide attempts in routine clinical care exhibit specific characteristics regarding sociodemographics, life events, personality, and symptom burden

 

N (%)/M (SD)

Sociodemographic characteristics

 Sex/gender (women)

384 (54.4)

 Age

37.77 (14.65)

 Migration backgrounda

118 (31.2)

 Partnership

357 (50.6)

 Married

189 (26.8)

 Parenthood

248 (35.1)

 Level of education (Abitur)

397 (56.2)

Main diagnoses

 Primary or secondary diagnosis of depression

577 (81.7)

  F32.0

4 (0.6)

  F32.1

120 (17.0)

  F32.2

41 (5.8)

  F32.9

45 (6.4)

  F33.0

11 (1.6)

  F33.1

250 (35.4)

  F33.2

84 (11.9)

  F34.1

22 (3.1)

 Primary or secondary diagnosis of anxiety

222 (31.4)

  F40.-

50 (7.1)

  F41.-

172 (28.7)

Life eventsa

 Childhood trauma screener (CTS) (sum score)

4.84 (3.98)

  Prevalence of emotional abuse

127 (38.4)

  Prevalence of physical abuse

69 (20.8)

  Prevalence of sexual abuse

62 (18.7)

  Prevalence of emotional neglect

95 (28.7)

  Prevalence of physical neglect

51 (15.4)

 Personality and individual differences

  Resilient coping (BRCS sum score)

12.59 (3.36)

  Personality functioning (OPD-SQS sum score)

25.23 (9.49)

  Self-Criticism (DEQ-SC4 sum score)

20.40 (5.59)

Use of harmful legal and illegal substances

 Never

175 (48.7)

 Former smoker

68 (18.9)

 Occasionally, not daily

17 (4.7)

 Fewer than 5 cigarettes per day

16 (4.5)

 More than 5 cigarettes per day

77 (21.4)

 Alcohol consumption

1.14 (1.05)

 Use of illegal substances

42 (5.9)

Mental distress, suicidal thoughts and behaviors

 Depression symptoms (PHQ-9 sum score)

15.05 (5.55)

 Current suicidal ideation (PHQ-9 item)

348 (49.3)

 Reported previous suicide attempt(s)

118 (16.7)

  1. aAs data on cigarette smoking, migration background and the CTS were only available for a proportion of the sample, the respective percentages refer to the patient sample for whom this data was available: N = 359 in the case of cigarette smoking, N = 378 in the case of migration background; N = 331 in the case of the CTS (sum).