Table 1: Sociodemographic and clinical properties of the patients.

Female Male Total
N (%) N (%) N (%)
Gender 94 (33.6%) 186 (66.4%) 280 (100%)
Marital status Single 58 (61.7%) 127 (68.1%) 185 (65.9%)
Married 16 (17.0%) 39 (21.1%) 55 (19.7%)
Divorced-widowed etc 20 (21.3%) 20 (10.8%) 40 (14.4%)
Occupational status Occupied 29 (30.8%) 79 (42.7%) 108 (38.7%)
No occupation 42 (43.6%) 54 (28.6%) 95 (33.7%)
Retired 5 (5.3%) 17 (9.2%) 22 (7.9%)
Governmental support 19 (20.0%) 36 (19.4%) 55 (19.7%)
Community counselling centre visits Daily or weekly 54 (57.4%) 101 (54.6%) 155 (55.6%)
Irregular or rare 40 (42.6%) 85 (45.4%) 125 (44.4%)
Violence behaviour Yes 33 (35.1%) 71 (38.4%) 104 (37.3%)
No 61 (64.9%) 114 (61.6%) 175 (62.7%)
Suicidal attempt Yes 31 (33.0%) 46 (24.9%) 77 (27.6%)
No 64 (67.0%) 139 (75.1%) 202 (72.4%)
Age (mean±sd) 41.37±10.67 40.71±9.53 40.93±9.91
Years of education (mean±sd) 7.53±3.98 8.74±3.59 8.33±3.77
Duration of illness (years) (mean±sd) 17.86±9.44 16.82±9.06 17.17±9.18
Number of hospitalizations (mean±sd) 2.32±2.64 3.14±3.12 2.87±2.99
Total stay in hospital (days)(mean±sd) 66.72±107.28 89.40±104.39 81.81±105.69