Causes of suicidal behaviors in men who have sex with men in China: a national questionnaire survey

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Importance of major causes of suicide behaviors in MSM in China

Cause	N	n	Percentage
Romantic gay relationship breakup	398	134	33.67%
Self-rejection of homosexuality	390	120	30.77%
Difficulty finding gay partner(s)	390	66	16.92%
Pressure from being pushed to get married	390	58	14.87%
Difficulty getting used to a marriage life	390	46	11.79%
Sudden emotional stress from unexpected events	390	45	11.54%
Lack of legislation of same sex marriage	398	44	11.31%
Disclosure of homosexuality	390	30	7.69%

Note: 398 out of the 1530 MSM who responded to the question regarding suicide behaviors had suicidal ideation, but not all of these 398 respondents equally answered each of the sub-questions regarding the individual causes of suicidal ideation. For this reason, the number of denominator in the percentage calculation was different for different causes. N: number of the MSM who responded to the specific cause in the first column; n: number of the respondents who had suicidal ideation due to the corresponding cause.

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