Table 1 Description of the study sample and prevalence of suicide ideation according to covariates
Men | Women | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Suicide ideation a | Suicide ideation a | |||||||
n | % b | % b | p-value c | n | % b | % b | p-value c | |
All | 8579 | – | 5.2 | 11,851 | – | 5.7 | ||
Age (years) | 0.128 | 0.360 | ||||||
< 30 | 1020 | 19.0 | 4.4 | 1283 | 18.1 | 4.7 | ||
30–39 | 1864 | 25.5 | 3.7 | 2473 | 23.6 | 4.7 | ||
40–49 | 2799 | 28.6 | 6.9 | 3820 | 28.1 | 6.0 | ||
≥ 50 | 2896 | 26.9 | 5.4 | 4275 | 30.2 | 6.8 | ||
Marital status | 0.002 | 0.015 | ||||||
Living with a partner | 6827 | 76.2 | 4.3 | 8849 | 72.6 | 5.0 | ||
Alone | 1752 | 23.8 | 8.0 | 3001 | 27.4 | 7.7 | ||
Social support outside work | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||||
Yes and don’t need more help | 6924 | 81.7 | 3.7 | 8939 | 78.5 | 3.0 | ||
No and don’t need more help | 340 | 4.2 | 8.5 | 353 | 2.9 | 9.7 | ||
Yes but need more help | 1006 | 12.0 | 12.0 | 1952 | 15.3 | 15.0 | ||
No and need more help | 191 | 2.0 | 16.4 | 432 | 3.3 | 23.7 | ||
Life event(s) during childhood | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||||
None | 4154 | 48.1 | 2.5 | 4608 | 38.5 | 2.9 | ||
1 | 2462 | 28.4 | 4.7 | 3556 | 30.1 | 3.2 | ||
≥ 2 | 1926 | 23.6 | 11.3 | 3644 | 31.3 | 11.6 | ||
Life event(s) within the last 3 years | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||||
None | 4675 | 56.4 | 3.0 | 4854 | 42.6 | 2.1 | ||
1 | 2588 | 29.4 | 5.3 | 3945 | 32.1 | 5.3 | ||
≥ 2 | 1286 | 14.2 | 13.6 | 3012 | 25.3 | 12.3 | ||
Occupation | 0.686 | 0.725 | ||||||
Managers, professionals | 2025 | 22.4 | 5.1 | 1691 | 14.9 | 4.9 | ||
Associate professionals, technicians | 2402 | 25.9 | 4.4 | 3978 | 27.9 | 5.2 | ||
Clerks, service workers | 1397 | 14.4 | 6.1 | 5357 | 48.3 | 6.1 | ||
Blue-collar workers | 2681 | 37.3 | 5.5 | 751 | 8.9 | 6.6 | ||
Economic activity | 0.271 | 0.788 | ||||||
Services | 5993 | 66.2 | 5.6 | 10,866 | 90.1 | 5.7 | ||
Others | 2579 | 33.8 | 4.5 | 979 | 9.9 | 6.1 | ||