Mortality of young offenders: a national register-based follow-up study of 15- to 19-year-old Finnish delinquents referred for forensic psychiatric examination between 1980 and 2010

Table 2 Comparisons between different subgroups of 606 delinquents

	Deaths n (%)	HR	CI 95%	p
Gender
Boys	121/551 (22.0)	0.85	0.48–1.51	NS
Girls	13/55 (23.6)	Ref
Age
Minors	50/259 (19.3)	0.76	0.54–1.08	NS
Young adults	84/347 (24.2)	Ref
Criminal history
Violent	121/506 (23.9)	2.01	1.14–3.57	0.009
Non-violent	13/100 (13.0)	Ref
Diagnosis
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders	8/57 (14.0)	0.62	0.31–1.28	NS
CD/PD	116/479 (24.2)	Ref
Comorbid alcohol abuse/dependence
Yes	59/275 (21.5)	1.10	0.78–1.55	NS
No	75/331 (22.7)	Ref

HR hazard ratio, CI confidence interval, CD conduct disorder, PD personality disorder

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