Publisher's Synopsis
This report presents the analysis of the data on suicidal thoughts and attempts, collected in the 2000 ONS survey on psychiatric morbidity among adults in Great Britain, where four questions were used to assess the scale of self-harm with suicidal intent and one question was about self-harm without suicidal intent. The analysis draws relationships between non-fatal suicidal behaviour and socio-economic, socio-demographic, psychiatric and social functioning characteristics. Amongst the conclusions were that 14.9% of the survey had considered suicide at some point in their lives and that women were more likely than men to have considered suicide. There was however no statistically significant variation in the percentage of respondents in different ethnic groups who had ever attempted suicide.
