Deliberate Self-Poisoning Presenting to an Emergency Medicine Network in South-East Melbourne: A Descriptive Study
Table 1
Demographics. Age distribution of female patients according to age group (percentage of females of the total number of patients for specific age group is mentioned after the frequency).
Casey
Dandenong
MMC Clayton
value
Age group
Female
Female
Female
18–30≠
249 (68.8)
305 (66.3)
387 (73.3)
31–40≠
147 (51.2)
184 (53.6)
202 (64.5)
41–50
167 (65.0)
175 (62.7)
162 (65.6)
0.774
51–60
74 (70.5)
72 (67.9)
60 (69.0)
0.434
>61
27 (58.7)
44 (67.7)
44 (60.3)
0.081
Total
664 (62.8)
780 (62.3)
855 (68.5)
Marital status
Single
436 (58.23)
606 (55.60)
763 (65.78)
Married/Defacto
329 (37.9)
335 (30.74)
286 (24.66)
0.105
Divorced/separated
78 (8.99)
109 (10.2)
70 (6.09)
Widowed
16 (1.84)
21 (1.93)
17 (1.47)
0.678
Not stated/inadequately described
9 (1.04)
19 (1.74)
24 (2.07)
Country of birth
Australia
817 (77.3)
834 (66.56)
908 (72.76)
0.064
Other than Australia†
240 (22.7)
419 (33.44)
340 (27.24)
Significant difference exists between hospital areas for the frequency of population (Chi square, < 0.05). ≠Significant differences exist between hospital areas among age groups, for both sexes. The information for male is not shown in the table. †The major countries in this group were: England, India, New Zealand, Srilanka, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.
