Characteristics of suicide attempts in Northwestern Iran: a five-year population-based survey

BMC Psychiatry

Table 5 The three Latent Classes Model of suicide’s characteristics and risk factors among female Iranian subjects

	Latent class
	Non-lethal attempters with lower educational level	Non-lethal attempters with higher educational level	Lethal attempters
Latent class prevalence	0.554	0.427	0.019
Item-response probabilities
Method of suicide
Poisoning with substance	0.002	0.003	0.000
Use of poisons	0.001	0.083	0.304
Poisoning with medications	0.981	0.814	0.469
Hanging	0.000	0.008	0.172
Self-immolation	0.000	0.006	0.027
Jumping from height	0.005	0.007	0.009
Other ways	0.011	0.078	0.019
Education
Under diploma	0.742	0.357	0.408
Diploma and higher	0.258	0.643	0.592
Marital status
Married	0.336	0.723	0.637
Single	0.664	0.277	0.363
Residency
Rural	0.015	0.259	0.214
Urban	0.985	0.741	0.786
Having history of suicide	0.006	0.034	0.281
Completed suicide	0.000	0.000	0.862

Note. The probability of a “No” response can be calculated by subtracting the item-response probabilities shown above from 1
* Item-response probabilities > 0.5 in bold to facilitate interpretation

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