Table 6.

Correlates of Past-Year Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts, Canadian Community Health Survey Cycle 1.2-Canadian Forces Supplement, 2001–2002^a

	Suicidal Ideation				Suicide Attempts
	No.	%	OR	95% CI	No.	%	OR	95% CI
Rank
Officer	68	2.2b	0.49**	0.35, 0.68	—c		0.71	0.24, 3.15
Senior	77	3.6	0.79	0.59, 1.06			0.93	0.28, 2.08
Junior	163	4.5	1.00	1.00, 1.00			1.00	1.00, 1.00
Type of force
Regular	213	4.2	1.00	1.00, 1.00			1.00	1.00, 1.00
Reserve	95	3.0	0.70**	0.54, 0.91			0.28*	0.08, 0.97
Environment
Communications/air/sea	140	3.7	0.91	0.70, 1.19			1.23	0.49, 3.13
Land	168	4.0	1.00	1.00, 1.00			1.00	1.00, 1.00
No. of deployments
0	169	3.7	1.00	1.00, 1.00			1.00	1.00, 1.00
1	49	3.6	0.98	0.68, 1.42			0.10	0.01, 2.16
2	28	3.0	0.80	0.50, 1.26			0.61	0.11, 3.41
3 or more	62	5.2	1.44*	1.01, 2.05			0.69	0.06, 8.53
Combat exposure	58	5.1	1.44*	1.02, 2.02			1.83	0.45, 7.53

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; OR, unadjusted odds ratio.

* P < 0.05; **P < 0.01.

^aAll number values are unweighted values; all percentages are weighted.

^bIn the past year, 2.2% of officers had suicidal thoughts.

^cCell size too small to be reported as per Statistics Canada guidelines.