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Methods| Study participants were adults from Stockholm County (Sweden) who participated in the 2010 version of the SPHC by completing a self-administered questionnaire. The study was approved by the Regional Ethical Review Board in Stockholm and informed written consent was obtained from all study participants. Tinnitus was assessed by the question “Do you have any of the following health problems or symptoms?” of which tinnitus was an option. Possible answers were “No; Yes (moderate problem); Yes (severe problem).” Patients with clinically ascertained tinnitus, diagnosed before 2010, were identified through record linkage with the National Patient register (International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, code

H93. 1). Self-reports of suicide attempts were gathered by the question “Have you ever tried to take your own life?(Yes, more than a year ago; Yes, in the last year; Yes, in the …