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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2015 Feb 18;45(6):651–663. doi: 10.1111/sltb.12156

Table 1.

Student characteristics and coping attitudes and perceptions of adult support by randomized presentation condition

Total Presentation Condition
Control PL Modeling PL Modeling & Interactive
N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%)
Classrooms 36 12 11 13

Students 706 210 252 244

Race/Ethnicity Black 20 (3.0) 9 (4.4) 5 (2.1) 6 (2.6)
Hispanic 19 (3.5) 2 (1.2) 6 (3.2) 11 (5.7)
White 620 (91.6) 191 (93.2) 221 (91.7) 208 (90.0)
Other 37 (5.5) 5 (2.5) 15 (6.2) 17 (7.4)

Sex Female 347 (49.2) 97 (46.2) 132 (52.6) 118 (48.4)

Grade 9 137 (20.1) 39 (18.9) 55 (22.6) 43 (18.4)
10 181 (26.5) 55 (26.7) 54 (22.2) 72 (30.8)
11 175 (25.6) 52 (25.2) 67 (27.6) 56 (23.9)
12 190 (27.8) 60 (29.1) 67 (27.6) 63 (26.9)

Suicide Behavior 1-yr Ideation (%) 88 (12.7) 25 (12.2) 32 (12.9) 31 (13.0)
Attempt (%) 40 (5.9) 12 (5.8) 12 (4.9) 16 (7.0)

Coping Attitudes Norms M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD)

      Help Seeking from Adults 2.94 (.72) 2.83 (.76) 2.95 (.73) 3.05 (.68)
      Reject Codes of Silence 3.31 (.53) 3.24 (.60) 3.38 (.64) 3.37 (.52)
      Maladaptive Coping 1.69 (.57) 1.77 (.58) 1.64 (.58) 1.65 (.53)
      Sources of Strength Coping 2.16 (60) 2.11 (.62) 2.17 (.62) 2.21 (.59)

Perceptions of Adult Support
      Adult Help for Suicidal Youth 3.29 (.57) 3.23 (.57) 3.32 (.59) 3.37 (.56)
      Trusted Adults at School 3.15 (.69) 3.12 (.65) 3.11 (.71) 3.25 (69)
      Trusted Adult Naming 1.47 (1.79) 1.15 (1.48) 1.60 (1.91) 1.65 (1.86)

Note. Percentages in each column do not add up to 100 due to missing information.