Table 2. Association of risk factors and suicide ideation among Benin adolescents.

Variable	Sample	No ideation	Ideation only	Ideation with plan	P-value
		%(n)**	%(n)**	%(n)**
	100%	76.8%(2087)	5.7%(139)	17.5%(454)
Demographic
Age					0.0927
12 and under	4.3%	4.1%(67)	4.9%(6)	4.71%(18)
13	7.0%	6.6%(109)	13.5%(16)	6.2%(22)
14	14.9%	15.5%(271)	10.6%(14)	13.7%(53)
15	24.7%	25.2%(483)	26.5%(33)	21.8%(91)
16 and over	49.2%	48.6% (1150)	44.6%(69)	53.6%(269)
Sex (male)	67.1%	67.0%(1359)	63.5%(83)	68.6%(296)	0.4261
Psycho-social
Anxiety	17.7%	14.5%(312)	20.3%(32)	31.1%(147)	<0.0001
Loneliness	17.1%	14.5%(312)	17.5%(23)	28.3%(136)	<0.0001
Socio-environmental
Bullied	13.7%	11.6%(222)	15.6%(19)	22.5%(101)	<0.0001
Attacked	35.8%	33.2%(674)	45.3%(62)	44.1%(195)	0.0045
In a fight	30.2%	28.4%(565)	29.6%(40)	38.3%(170)	0.0043
Truancy	29.1%	3.7%(70)	1.8%(8)	4.5%(31)	0.3788
Food insecurity	17.7%	16.5%(326)	24.6%(33)	21.0%(95)	0.0103
Alcohol misuse	17.0%	15.3%(314)	10.1%(13)	26.7%(116)	<0.0001
Substance use	4.2%	2.8%(51)	7.8%(9)	9.0%(36)	<0.0001
Tobacco use	3.6%	2.7%(54)	6.1%(8)	6.7%(31)	0.0004
Parental support*					0.0129
0 (low support)	1.5%	1.1%(22)	2.7%(3)	3.0%(13)
1	30.0%	28.5%(620)	28.9%(40)	37.1%(176)
2	27.4%	27.7%(561)	27.0%(40)	26.2%(118)
3	24.0%	24.4%(484)	31.8%(42)	20.1%(88)
4 (high support)	17.0%	18.4%(368)	9.7%(13)	13.6%(54)
Close friends					0.1051
0	12.0%	11.99%(234)	18.34%(25)	9.75%(46)
1	23.3%	23.11%(481)	26.68%(38)	22.74%(100)
2	17.8%	17.05%(364)	16.46%(22)	21.44%(99)
3 or more	47.0%	47.85%(1000)	47.85%(54)	46.07%(208)

^*Parental support tested as a continuous variable ** weighted % and unweighted n.