the method was not fool-proof; (iii) My attempt was a cry for help, I did not want to die.” In line with contemporary distinctions between suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury,33, 34 respondents endorsing statements 1 or 2 were considered to have made a suicide attempt, whereas respondents endorsing statement 3 were considered to have made a suicide “gesture” (i.e., potentially injurious behavior in which the intent was not to die, but to signal distress and/or to seek help from others). At the NCS-2 follow-up assessment, respondents were asked a similar series of self-administered SRO questions as at baseline, but this time focusing on the interval between the two surveys rather than over their lifetime. In analyzing these data, we distinguished between new onsets (i.e., SROs at follow-up among those who denied ever having such an experience at baseline) and persistence (i.e., SROs that occurred between the two surveys among respondents who also reported a lifetime history of the same experiences at baseline).
