Table 3.

Prevalence and Odds Ratios (ORs) for Suicide Attempts by Weight Status/Accuracy of Weight Perception Among White, Black, and Hispanic US High School Students (YRBS 2007 and 2009).

	White			Black			Hispanic
Attempted Suicide	%	OR (95% CI)	p	%	OR (95% CI)	p	%	OR (95% CI)	p
Sex			0.0280			0.0004			< 0.0001
Male	3.59	0.75 (0.57-0.97)		5.53	0.56 (0.41-0.77)		4.53	0.51 (0.39-0.67)
Female	7.11	<REF>		10.21	<REF>		10.88	<REF>
Year			†			†			†
2007	5.55			7.79			9.00
2009	5.06			8.00			7.00
Age Group			< 0.0001			†			†
≤14	6.23	1.71 (1.23-2.37)		8.17			9.72
15	6.03	1.50 (1.15-1.96)		7.77			8.86
16	5.80	1.44 (1.10-1.88)		8.76			8.77
17	4.61	<REF>		7.33			8.29
≥18	3.46	0.86 (0.62-1.20)		7.26			11.31
Feel Sad/Hopeless	17.35	14.57 (10.76-19.73)	< 0.0001	17.97	5.72 (4.07-8.04)	< 0.0001	20.82	7.86 (6.15-10.03)	< 0.0001
Weight Status/Accuracy			0.0090			0.0008			0.0007
Healthy Weight/Accurate	4.06	<REF>		5.32	<REF>		7.07	<REF>
Healthy Weight/Inaccurate	7.04	1.36 (1.09-1.71)		10.78	1.98 (1.31-2.98)		10.92	1.31 (0.95-1.79)
Overweight/Accurate	5.78	1.00 (0.76-1.31)		9.95	1.75 (1.22-2.52)		8.95	0.99 (0.68-1.44)
Overweight/Inaccurate	4.60	1.37 (0.94-1.98)		6.76	1.38 (0.79-2.40)		9.41	1.56 (1.05-2.32)
Obese/Accurate	6.67	1.37 (0.95-1.99)		9.62	1.74 (0.99-3.03)		8.65	1.19 (0.79-1.80)
Obese/Inaccurate	4.89	1.62 (0.73-3.57)		12.02	3.24 (1.70-6.19)		5.73	0.79 (0.29-2.12)
Extremely Obese/Accurate	4.26	0.90 (0.40-2.04)		7.34	1.65 (0.60-4.57)		12.00	2.13 (1.22-3.74)
Extremely Obese/Inaccurate	3.44	1.46 (0.16-12.96)		1.44	0.34 (0.06-1.95)		27.52	9.03 (2.39-34.07)

Note: All listed variables were considered for inclusion in the model. Significant interactions by race/ethnicity were identified. Thus, results were stratified by race/ethnicity.

^†Not included in final model.