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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Affect Disord. 2010 Sep 28;129(1-3):244–251. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2010.09.008

Table 3.

Suicide risk factors: multivariate logistic regression analyses using odds ratio (OR) significant at 0.05 or lower.

Risk factors OR (95% CI) p
Education level (<7 years) 1.9 0.066
Marital status
 Never married and not dating 1
 Never married but dating 4.8 0.003
 Ever married 0.8 0.643
Low family annual income 1.9 0.075
Party/league membership 0.4 0.004
Relationship with parents (poor) 2.0 0.080
Suicide history in family 4.6 0.004
Negative life events
 0–1 1
 2–3 2.4 0.009
 ≥4 5.5 <0.001
Perceived social support (low) 2.5 0.009
Mental disorders 16.8 <0.001
Hopelessness (high) 12.2 <0.001
Approach coping (low) 3.3 <0.001
Dysfunctional impulsivity (high) 2.2 0.008

Nagelkerke R square=0.801. Hosmer–Lemeshow Chi-Square=10.119, P=0.257.