TABLE 2—
Factors Associated With Suicide Attempt During Past Year: Public High School Students, Dominican Republic, 2009
| Simple Logistic Regression, OR (95% CI) | Multiple Logistic Regression |
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| Model 1, OR (95% CI) | Model 2, OR (95% CI) | ||
| Lived in United States ≥ 1 ya | 2.54*** (1.67, 3.87) | 2.26*** (1.47, 3.49) | 2.07** (1.32, 3.25) |
| Lived in United States < 1 ya | 1.65*** (1.19, 2.27) | 1.51** (1.09, 2.09) | 1.53** (1.10, 2.11) |
| No. of friends who lived in the United States | 1.07*** (1.03, 1.11) | 1.04* (1.01, 1.08) | 1.05*** (1.01, 1.09) |
| US media and language | 1.14*** (1.07, 1.21) | 1.15* (1.01, 1.33) | 1.17* (1.02, 1.35) |
| English proficiency | 1.05** (1.02, 1.09) | 0.97 (0.90, 1.04) | 0.96 (0.89, 1.03) |
| Age | 0.98 (0.92, 1.05) | ||
| Female | 1.57*** (1.31, 1.88) | ||
| Zinc roof | 0.90 (0.75, 1.09) | ||
| A parent completed high schoolb | 1.00 (0.83, 1.19) | ||
| A parent completed collegeb | 0.89 (0.71, 1.11) | ||
| Dual-parent household | 0.76*** (0.64, 0.91) | ||
| Urban area | 0.79* (0.63, 0.99) | ||
Note. CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio. The sample size was n = 8446.
a
Never lived in the United States is the reference group.
b
No parent completed high school is the reference group.
*P < .05; **P < .01; ***P < .001.