Factors related to young people’s contact with a somatic department as risk factors for attempted suicide; adjusted level
| Risk factor | Males | Females | ||
| Incidence† | Incidence† | |||
| RR | CI | RR | CI | |
| Time since last contact | ||||
| Never (baseline) | 1.00 | – | 1.00 | – |
| 1–7 days | 11.5** | (6.78 to 19.6) | 15.9** | (12.4 to 20.5) |
| 8–14 days | 3.65** | (1.89 to 7.03) | 4.70** | (3.34 to 6.6) |
| 15–30 days | 1.54 | (0.80 to 2.94) | 3.84** | (2.89 to 5.11) |
| 31–90 days | 1.91* | (1.17 to 3.12) | 3.45** | (2.77 to 4.30) |
| 91–180 days | 2.20* | (1.39 to 3.51) | 2.52** | (2.02 to 3.14) |
| 181–360 days | 1.33 | (0.85 to 2.09) | 2.22** | (1.80 to 2.73) |
| 1–2 years | 1.25 | (0.81 to 1.91) | 1.87** | (1.53 to 2.28) |
| 2–5 years | 0.96 | (0.64 to 1.45) | 1.50** | (1.24 to 1.82) |
| >5 years | 0.67 | (0.43 to 1.05) | 1.13 | (0.92 to 1.40) |
| Duration of contact | ||||
| None (baseline) | – | – | – | – |
| 1 day | 1.00 | – | 1.00 | – |
| 2–8 days | 1.39* | (1.09 to 1.77) | 0.99 | (0.88 to 1.11) |
| 9–15 days | 1.30 | (0.82 to 2.06) | 0.86 | (0.67 to 1.11) |
| 16–30 days | 0.67 | (0.38 to 1.19) | 0.76 | (0.58 to 0.99) |
| 31–90 days | 0.82 | (0.54 to 1.25) | 0.70* | (0.55 to 0.88) |
| >90 days | 0.59* | (0.40 to 0.89) | 0.59** | (0.49 to 0.72) |
| Number of contacts | ||||
| None (baseline) | – | – | – | – |
| 1–2 contacts | 1.00 | – | 1.00 | – |
| 3–5 contacts | 1.31* | (1.01 to 1.70) | 1.24* | (1.09 to 1.40) |
| 6–10 contacts | 1.54* | (1.16 to 2.04) | 1.53** | (1.33 to 1.76) |
| >10 | 1.90** | (1.37 to 2.62) | 1.66** | (1.41 to 1.95) |
| Diagnoses | ||||
| Abortion, not medical | – | – | 1.15 | (0.72 to 1.84) |
| Medical abortion | – | – | 1.33* | (1.10 to 1.60) |
| Violence | 1.85** | (1.46 to 2.34) | 1.66** | (1.38 to 1.99) |
| Epilepsy | 0.74 | (0.46 to 1.18) | 0.79 | (0.61 to 1.03) |
| Asthma | 1.11 | (0.78 to 1.59) | 1.02 | (0.83 to 1.24) |
| Diabetes | 0.97 | (0.33 to 2.85) | 0.77 | (0.44 to 1.37) |
| Cancer | 0.10 | (0.01 to 1.17) | 0.87 | (0.45 to 1.68) |
| Malformation | 1.19 | (0.91 to 1.56) | 0.88 | (0.73 to 1.07) |
*p<0.05; **p<0.0001.
↵† Adjusted for all other variables and child's psychiatric history, parents' psychiatric history, use of psychopharmacological drugs, level of income, level of education, death and cohabitation.