Figure and Table | Emergency Dispatches for Suicide Attempts during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Okayama, Japan: An Interrupted Time-series Analysis

Table 1. Descriptive Statistics for the Pre-COVID-19 Pandemic Period (Control Period) and the Pandemic Period.

	Control period (From Jan 2017 to Dec 2019)	COVID-19 pandemic period (From Jan 2020 to Dec 2022)
Number of suicide attempts
Total	843	958
Men	298	353
15-24	46	51
25-49	125	160
50-64	71	62
≧65	50	75
Women	527	595
15-24	129	145
25-49	239	297
50-64	83	86
≧65	67	61
Number (%) of suicides completed within 1 month after attempts	91 (10.8)^a	85 (8.9)^a
Temperature, mean (SD)	16.2 (8.7)	16.5 (8.5)
Holidays, n (% in each period)	59 (5.4)	51 (4.7)

Table 2. Rate Ratios for Suicide Attempts during the COVID-19 Pandemic Compared with the Prepandemic Period (Control Period).