Table 4. Association of risk factors and suicide attempts.
| Variable | No attempts | 1 attempt | 2+ attempts | P-value |
| %(n)** | %(n)** | %(n)** | ||
| 71.7%(1960) | 14.8%(369) | 13.5%(351) | ||
| Age | 0.1335 | |||
| 12 and under | 3.8%(58) | 5.8%(18) | 5.2%(16) | |
| 13 | 7.0%(107) | 7.3%(23) | 6.2%(17) | |
| 14 | 14.9%(246) | 18.2%(59) | 10.7%(32) | |
| 15 | 24.4%(437) | 24.7%(85) | 26.2%(85) | |
| 16 | 49.8%(1106) | 44.1%(182) | 51.7%(200) | |
| Sex (male) | 66.9%(1271) | 66.5%(235) | 67.5%(227) | 0.9436 |
| Psycho-social | ||||
| Anxiety | 13.6%(286) | 23.9%(89) | 33.6%(118) | <0.0001 |
| Loneliness | 14.3%(289) | 17.6%(71) | 31.1%(110) | <0.0001 |
| Socio-environmental | ||||
| Bullied | 11.0%(201) | 14.04%(49) | 28.2%(93) | <0.0001 |
| Attacked | 29.7%(565) | 49.2%(182) | 53.9%(183) | <0.0001 |
| In a fight | 25.2%(477) | 41.4%(148) | 44.8%(150) | <0.0001 |
| Food insecurity | 16.3%(307) | 20.2%(71) | 22.4%(74) | 0.0020 |
| Alcohol misuse | 14.4%(281) | 18.7%(65) | 28.6%(95) | 0.0002 |
| Substance use | 1.9%(35) | 7.6%(24) | 13.5%(38) | <0.0001 |
| Tobacco use | 2.7%(50) | 4.0%(14) | 8.4%(29) | 0.0001 |
| Parental support* | 0.0001 | |||
| 0 (low support) | 1.3%(22) | 2.6%(9) | 2.6%(9) | |
| 1 | 28.6%(588) | 31.1%(122) | 34.9%(123) | |
| 2 | 26.9%(517) | 29.9%(105) | 27.6%(98) | |
| 3 | 24.5%(456) | 22.6%(79) | 23.2%(80) | |
| 4 (high support) | 18.7%(349) | 13.8%(49) | 11.7%(37) | |
| Truancy | 2.8%(49) | 3.2%(12) | 9.4%(33) | 0.0001 |
| Close friends | 0.0078 | |||
| 0 | 13.2%(238) | 9.2%(36) | 8.3%(30) | |
| 1 | 22.8%(446) | 29.5%(109) | 19.1%(65) | |
| 2 | 16.4%(329) | 21.7%(78) | 21.4%(78) | |
| 3 or more | 47.7%(940) | 39.6%(144) | 51.2%(177) | |
*
Parental support tested as a continuous variable ** weighted % and unweighted n.