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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2010 Dec;18(12):1146–1154. doi: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e3181dd1e55

Table 2.

Association between CT median income and risk of threshold suicidal ideation

Unadjusted Model 11 OR; 95% CI z; p Adjusted Model 22 OR; 95% CI z; p Adjusted Model 33 OR; 95% CI z; p

SES

CT median household income
 Higher Reference Reference Reference

 Lower 4.60 (1.64–12.86)
2.41; .004
5.01 (1.51–16.60)
2.64; .008
5.44 (1.71–17.24)
2.95; .003

Education
 High School or less Reference Reference Reference

 Some College 0.84 (0.42–2.99)
−.27; .788
0.71 (0.20–2.27)
−.28; .779

 College or Greater 0.82 (0.27–2.51)
−.35l .726
1.38 (0.44–4.42)
.25, .801

Demographics

Age (years) .98 (0.92–1.05)
−.52; .601
.98 (0.91–1.06)
−.20, .838

Gender
 Male Reference Reference

 Female 2.30 (0.76–6.96)
1.47; .141
2.37 (0.76–7.45)
1.33, .182

Race/Ethnicity
 Caucasian Reference Reference

 Minority .78 (.17–3.70)
−.31; .759
.49 (.10–2.43)
−.55, .584

Baseline Depression

 HDRS < 10 Reference

 HDRS ≥10 7.85 (2.70–23.02)
4.14, < .001
1

Unadjusted relative risk of threshold SI in older adults residing in low vs. middle or high CT median household income neighborhoods

2

Model 2 included an individual-level socioeconomic indicator, education (high school or less, some college, college or greater) and demographic factors (age, gender, and race/ethnicity)

3

Model 3 included baseline severity of depressive symptoms, implementing an indicator for sub-threshold levels of depression or above (HDRS >10), and indicators for high medical burden (CIRS >7, i.e., above the sample mean).

4

P-values are obtained from z statistics and corresponding p-values are from Wald tests.