Some Results From an Automated Statewide Comparison Among Attempted, Committed, and Nonsuicidal Patients

In the Missouri Division of Mental Health statewide automated Standard System of Psychiatry, 151 patients who had attempted suicide were compared with 424 who had not & with 97 who had committed suicide. Much of the data was provided from relatives using an automated history. Attempters were younger & more often female, depressed, assaultive & had a family history of suicide. Actual suicides were more often male, better educated & in general more resembled the attempters than nonattempters.