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. 2025 Jul 7;40(33):e205. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2025.40.e205

Table 4. Hierarchical logistic regression analyses results of participants with intentional suicide attempts,a with SSA as the dependent variable (N = 413b).

Independent variables Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4
B Wald OR B Wald OR B Wald OR B Wald OR
Demographics and historical factors
Age, yr 0.03 12.18 1.03*** 0.02 3.56 1.02 0.02 2.72 1.02 0.02 2.82 1.02
Sex (female) −0.55 4.83 0.58* −0.42 2.24 0.66 −0.37 1.60 0.69 −0.39 1.78 0.68
Previous suicide attempts (yes) −0.34 1.90 0.71 −0.42 2.10 0.66 −0.50 2.85 0.61 −0.51 2.88 0.60
Psychiatric treatment (yes) −0.41 1.67 0.66 −0.49 1.76 0.62 −0.42 1.23 0.66 −0.40 1.10 0.67
Psychiatric hospitalizations (yes) 0.03 0.01 1.03 0.10 0.13 1.11 0.15 0.28 1.17 0.16 0.30 1.17
Characteristics of self-injury
Cutting (yes) −1.88 33.67 0.15*** −1.79 29.28 0.17*** −1.75 27.69 0.17***
Lethality of injury (higher) 1.75 30.62 5.78*** 1.79 30.13 5.98*** 1.79 29.58 6.01***
Status at the time of self-injury
Planned (yes) 0.80 2.96 2.22 0.71 2.33 2.04
Alcohol (yes) 0.56 4.11 1.75* 0.57 4.18 1.76*
Suicide note (yes) 0.79 2.74 2.20 0.80 2.78 2.22
Seeking help (yes) −0.73 8.14 0.48** −0.74 8.37 0.48**
Current suicidal ideation and plans
Sustained suicidal ideation (yes) −0.07 0.05 0.93
Future suicidal plans (yes) 0.31 1.07 1.36
Statistics of the model
-2LL 514.304 415.113 397.343 396.163
Model χ2 42.246 (df = 5)*** 141.437 (df = 7)*** 159.207 (df = 11)*** 160.387 (df = 13)***
Step χ2 42.246 (df = 5)*** 99.191 (df = 2)*** 17.770 (df = 4)** 1.180 (df = 2)
Nagelkerke R2 0.131 0.392 0.432 0.435
Classification accuracy 63.2 77.5 77.5 77.2

SSA = serious intent suicide attempt, OR = odds ratio.

*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001.

aIntentional suicide attempts included minor intent suicide attempts and SSA.

bCases with missing values for any independent variable were excluded from the analysis.