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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Affect Disord. 2007 May 16;105(1-3):25–33. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2007.01.036

Table 2.

Baseline socio-demographics and lifetime SROs as predictors of suicide ideation, plans, gestures and attempts in the NCS-21-

Total sample
Among NCS-2 lifetime suicidal ideators
Ideation 646/5001 Plan 197/1221 Gesture 55/1221 Attempt 84/1221
OR
(95% CI)
χ2
OR
(95% CI)
χ2
OR
(95% CI)
χ2
OR
(95% CI)
χ2
Baseline age
 15−24 1.3* (1.0 − 1.8) 1.3 (0.8 − 2.2) 2.4* (1.0 − 6.0) 1.1 (0.5 − 2.4)
 25−55 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Sex
 Female 1.2 (0.9 − 1.6) 1.3 (0.9 − 1.9) 2.6 (0.9 − 7.6) 1.0 (0.6 − 1.6)
 Male 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Race/ethnicity 12.21* 7.82* 1.51 2.28
 Non-Hispanic White 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
 Non-Hispanic Black 0.6* (0.4 − 0.8) 1.1 (0.5 − 2.2) 0.6 (0.1 − 2.9) 1.6 (0.8 − 3.7)
 Hispanic 1.0 (0.7 − 1.5) 0.6 (0.3 − 1.2) 1.1 (0.5 − 2.5) 0.7 (0.2 − 2.5)
 Other 1.4 (0.7 − 2.7) 0.4 (0.2 − 1.1) 0.4 (0.0 − 3.7) 0.8 (0.2 − 4.3)
Baseline marital status 21.65* 1.57 2.33 0.87
 Married or cohabiting 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
 Previously married 1.9* (1.4 − 2.5) 0.8 (0.5 − 1.3) 0.4 (0.1 − 1.4) 1.2 (0.7 − 2.1)
 Never married 1.3 (0.8 − 1.9) 1.3 (0.7 − 2.3) 0.6 (0.1 − 2.7) 1.5 (0.6 − 4.1)
Baseline employment Status 41.74* 3.12 1.93 1.72
 Working or Student 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
 Homemaker 1.0 (0.6 − 1.5) 1.9 (0.9 − 3.9) 1.5 (0.6 − 3.9) 0.8 (0.2 − 3.5)
 Other 2.7* (1.9 − 3.7) 1.1 (0.6 − 2.1) 1.4 (0.6 − 3.4) 1.6 (0.7 − 3.7)
Baseline education 3.10 2.67 2.62 14.14*
 0−11 years 1.0 (0.7 − 1.5) 0.7 (0.3 − 1.4) 1.7 (0.6 − 4.8) 1.6 (0.5 − 4.8)
 12 years 0.8 (0.6 − 1.2) 0.7 (0.4 − 1.2) 0.9 (0.3 − 2.1) 0.7 (0.3 − 1.8)
 13−15 years 1.1 (0.8 − 1.5) 0.8 (0.5 − 1.4) 1.3 (0.5 − 3.9) 2.3 (0.9 − 5.6)
 16 and more 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Baseline poverty level
 Poverty 1.2 (0.9 − 1.6) 1.0 (0.6 − 1.7) 1.8 (0.8 − 3.9) 0.9 (0.3 − 2.5)
 All others 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
Baseline parenting status 19.74* 2.48 10.88* 6.68*
 No young child 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
 Child 0−4 years old 1.7* (1.3 − 2.4) 1.1 (0.6 − 1.9) 0.7 (0.2 − 1.8) 1.1 (0.5 − 2.6)
 Child 5−12 years old 1.7* (1.2 − 2.5) 1.5 (0.9 − 2.5) 3.0* (1.2 − 7.3) 0.4* (0.2 − 1.0)
Religion 5.63 8.27* 4.28 3.73
 Protestant 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
 Catholic 0.9 (0.7 − 1.1) 0.6* (0.3 − 1.0) 1.5 (0.7 − 3.3) 0.6 (0.3 − 1.4)
 Other 1.4 (0.9 − 2.3) 1.1 (0.5 − 2.7) 1.5 (0.5 − 5.2) 0.5 (0.1 − 2.6)
 No preference 1.3 (0.8 − 2.1) 1.1 (0.5 − 2.7) 0.4 (0.1 − 1.4) 1.5 (0.8 − 3.0)
Baseline lifetime suicide Ideation 13.4* (10.5 − 17.2) 0.4* (0.3 − 0.8) 0.7 (0.3 − 1.8) 0.2* (0.1 − 0.5)
Baseline years (× 10) since first ideation2 0.3* (0.2 − 0.4) 0.8* (0.6 − 0.9) 0.8 (0.5 − 1.3) 0.9 (0.7 − 1.2)
Baseline lifetime suicide plan 2.8* (1.5 − 5.3) 2.5* (1.0 − 6.5) 1.1 (0.5 − 2.6)
Baseline lifetime suicide gesture 2.5 (0.8 − 7.9) 2.4 (0.7 − 8.4)
Baseline lifetime suicide attempt 1.5 (0.4 − 5.2) 8.8* (3.2 − 24.6)
1

Odds ratios (OR) from logistic regression coefficients. The 95% Confidence Interval (95% CI) were obtained using the Taylor series linearization method.

*

Significant at the .0r level, two-sided test