The non-consultation group consisted of patients who had not consulted a psychiatrist before their suicidal behaviour.
One group consisted of patients who consulted a psychiatrist before their suicidal behaviours (the consultation group), and the other group consisted of patients who had not consulted a psychiatrist before their suicidal behaviours (the non-consultation group).
Mood disorders were comparable between the consultation group (30.9%) and the non-consultation group (32.6%).
These are similar to the characteristics of the non-consultation group in the present study.
Table 3 shows the distribution of psychiatric disorders among the consultation and non-consultation groups.
Most of the incongruous consultation behaviours related to high impact non-consultation.
There was no clear pattern in the symptoms resulting in a high impact non-consultation, with fainting, feeling depressed, difficulty sleeping, vomiting and coughing up blood the symptoms most commonly resulting in a high impact non-consultation.
Patients in the non-consultation group were significantly more likely to use violent methods than patients in the consultation group.
Neurotic-related disorders (F4) were significantly higher in the non-consultation group than in the consultation group (P < 0.01).
It is not possible to know how often each of these reasons accounted for non-consultation in our study.
Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders were higher in the non-consultation group than in the consultation group (P < 0.01).
