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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2012 May 28;43(2):303–316. doi: 10.1017/S0033291712001080

Table 4.

Psychosocial and environmental predictors, based on latent class analysis, of suicidal ideation and depressive episodes during the three-year follow-up period of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.a

Depressive Episode
Suicidal Ideation
Risk of a recurrent depressive episode in each class % (SE) Model 1a
PR (95% CI)
Model 2a Model 3b
PR (95% CI)
Risk of suicidal ideation in each class % (SE) Model 1a
PR (95% CI)
Model 2a Model 3b
PR (95% CI)
Class 1, “low stress exposure” 28.1 (2.3) 1 1 1 9.6 (1.7) 1 1 1
Class 2, “personal loss” 37.4 (2.4) 1.29 (1.06, 1.58) 1.28 (1.04, 1.56) 1.27 (1.05, 1.55) 12.2 (1.6) 1.29 (0.82, 2.03) 1.21 (0.77, 1.90) 1.19 (0.75, 1.87)
Class 3, “financial, interpersonal instability” 44.9 (2.0) 1.55 (1.28, 1.88) 1.48 (1.22, 1.80) 1.33 (1.11, 1.61) 21.5 (1.6) 2.01 (1.36, 2.98) 1.78 (1.20, 2.63) 1.46 (0.97, 2.19)
Class 4, “economic difficulty” 47.9 (3.7) 1.60 (1.27, 2.01) 1.58 (1.25, 1.98) 1.52 (1.21, 1.90) 18.2 (2.9) 1.75 (1.09, 2.80) 1.59 (0.99, 2.55) 1.49 (0.92, 2.41)
Class 5, “occupational instability” 30.6 (6.6) 1.12 (0.69, 1.80) 1.13 (0.70, 1.82) 1.06 (0.68, 1.64) 16.8 (5.1) 1.65 (0.86, 3.17) 1.60 (0.84, 3.03) 1.39 (0.76, 2.56)
Childhood adversity index 1.10 (1.05, 1.14) 1.07 (1.03, 1.11) 1.13 (1.05, 1.22) 1.09 (1.02, 1.18)
Childhood sexual maltreatment index 1.01 (0.99, 1.02) 0.99 (0.98, 1.01) 1.03 (1.00, 1.06) 1.01 (0.98, 1.04)
Family on welfare during childhood 0.94 (0.80, 1.10) 0.92 (0.78, 1.08) 1.27 (1.00, 1.61) 1.20 (0.95, 1.51)
Model AUC statistic 0.63 0.65 0.70 0.63 0.67 0.72
a

Additional control variables not shown: age at enrollment, sex, educational attainment, and race/ethnicity.

b

Additionally adjusted for anxiety and substance disorders, the number of criterion ‘A’ depressive symptoms, level of impairment, and number of lifetime depressive episodes.