TABLE 2.

Suicidal ideation in past 12 months between sexual minority and heterosexual college students (ages 18–29), overall and by religious affiliation, National Research Consortium of Counseling Centers in Higher Education 2006 & 2011

	Suicidal ideation in past 12 months
	Unadjusted bivariate		Multivariablea
Overall	n (%)	p	aOR (95% CI)
Heterosexual	1164 (3.1)	<0.001	Ref
Sexual Minority	602 (22.5)		4.52* (3.97–5.16)
Religious affiliation Atheist/Agnostic/Secular
Atheist/Agnostic/Secular
Heterosexual	387 (4.2)	<0.001	Ref
Sexual Minority	179 (15.2)		2.53* (2.04–3.13)
Unspecified Christian
Heterosexual	406 (2.6)	<0.001	Ref
Sexual Minority	259 (36.6)		8.78* (6.96–11.07)
Catholic
Heterosexual (n = 4393)	125 (2.8)	<0.001	Ref
Sexual Minority (n = 167)	29 (17.4)		5.25* (3.23–8.52)
Protestant
Heterosexual (n = 3343)	111 (3.1)	<0.001	Ref
Sexual Minority (n = 119)	17 (13.2)		3.22* (1.74–5.95)
Latter day saint
Heterosexual (n = 659)	13 (2.0)	<0.001	Ref
Sexual Minority (n = 14)	3 (21.4)		11.81* (1.40–99.32)
Unitarian/Universalistb
Heterosexual (n = 266)	9 (3.4)	0.003	Ref
Sexual Minority (n = 59)	11 (18.6)		1.77 (0.50–6.29)
Jewishb
	21 (2.1)	<0.001	Ref
Sexual Minority (n = 59)	16 (21.1)		4.94* (2.02–12.09)
Islamc
Heterosexual (n = 481)	13 (2.7)	0.061	Ref
Sexual Minority (n = 30)	3 (10.0)		1.60 (0.19–13.33)
Buddhist
Heterosexual (n = 475)	14 (2.9)	<0.001	Ref
Sexual Minority (n = 59)	11 (18.6)		5.12* (2.03–12.88)
Hinduc
Heterosexual (n = 728)	20 (2.7)	<0.001	Ref
Sexual Minority (n = 41)	9 (21.9)		9.22* (3.32–25.64)

Abbreviations: aOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.

^aAdjusted for gender, international student status, partnership status, race/ethnicity, survey year, and ever taken medication for mental health concerns.

^bInternational student status omitted from final model because of perfect prediction.

^cRace/ethnicity omitted from final model because of perfect prediction.

^*p < 0.05