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Table 4 The comparison of "middle age"class and other classes except for "middle age"

From: Psychiatric assessment of suicide attempters in Japan: a pilot study at a critical emergency unit in an urban area

  

Middle age (n = 43)

except middle age(n = 277)

Analysis

  

N (%)

N (%)

χ2

df

P

Methods

      
 

Drug over dose

11 (26)

145 (52)

10.7

1

< 0.01

 

Laceration

13 (30)

39 (14)

7.1

1

0.01

 

High lethality

34 (79)

191 (69)

1.8

1

0.21

Education

   

5.9

2

0.052

 

Compulsory education

7 (16)

71 (26)

   
 

High school education and over

27 (63)

180 (65)

   

Axis I

      

Mood disorders

 

16 (37)

62 (22)

4.4

1

0.054

Adjustment disorders

 

3 (7)

54 (19)

4.0

1

0.053

Previous deliberate self harm

 

6 (14)

115 (42)

12.1

2

< 0.01

Current psychiatric treatment

 

23 (53)

185 (67)

8.8

3

< 0.05