%0 Journal Article
%A Sánchez-Teruel, David
%A Muela-Martínez, José-Antonio
%A González-Cabrera, Manuel
%A Herrera, María-Remedios Fernández-Amela Y
%A García-León, Ana
%T Variables related to suicide attempt in a Spanish province over a three-year period (2009-2011).
%D 2018
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/11937
%X The aim was to identify and describe socio demographic and clinical variables in individuals who have made a suicide attempt. An analysis of electronically stored records on persons admitted to the emergency departments of a northern health district during the period 2009-2011 for mental disorders was conducted. The records of 826 patients (30.1% of the total), where 485 (58.7%) were female, aged between 14 and 94 years (M = 49.3; SD = 12.7), were selected. This amounted to 412 individuals (49.9%) who had made a suicide attempt, and were compared with others without prior suicide attempt. A binary logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the strongest predictors of suicide attempt. The results show that the risk of making a suicide attempt increases with age, those most at risk being aged 34 to 53 years (p
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