Table 2.
Final linear mixed model for contextual factors associated with county-level suicide mortality rate among male individuals in the Region of the Americas.
| Covariates | Estimate | 95% CI |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Upper | |||
| Intercept | 2.75 | −3.21 | 8.70 | 0.366 |
| Year | −0.12 | −0.24 | 0.00 | 0.057 |
| Alcohol use, a risk-weighted prevalence (%) | 0.48 | 0.17 | 0.79 | 0.002 |
| Health expenditure per capita, in 2018 USD ($) | −0.002 | −0.003 | −0.0003 | 0.019 |
| Death rate due to homicide, per 100,000 population | 0.002 | 0.0006 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Intravenous drug use, age-standardized proportion (per 1000 population) | 2.12 | 0.87 | 3.37 | 0.001 |
| Proportion of the country with a population density between 500 and 1000 people per km2 (%) | −0.03 | −0.06 | −0.002 | 0.035 |
| Unemployment rate (%) | 0.15 | 0.06 | 0.23 | 0.001 |