Table 1.

Demographic Characteristics, Adult Support, and Suicidality by Sexual Orientation (N=22,834): MetroWest Adolescent Health Survey, Massachusetts 2012

	Sexual orientation
	Heterosexual (n=21,002)	Gay/lesbian (n=290)		Bisexual (n=763)		Questioning (n=779)
	%	%	pa	%	pa	%	pa
All individuals	92.0	1.3		3.3		3.4
DEMOGRAPHICS
Gender
Male	49.2	67.9	<0.001	28.6	<0.001	46.9	0.172
Female	50.8	32.1		71.4		53.1
Race/Ethnicity
White	75.7	72.8	0.262	67.8	0.001	61.2	<0.001
Non-White	24.3	27.2		32.2		38.8
Grade
9th	27.1	19.3	<0.001	23.3	0.044	29.8	0.425
10th	25.5	20.0		23.7		24.9
11th	25.0	30.0		27.8		23.9
12th	22.4	30.7		25.2		21.4
ADULT SUPPORT
Outside-school   adult support	90.4	76.2	<0.001	78.1	<0.001	79.6	<0.001
Within-school   adult support	70.1	65.9	0.143	66.4	0.087	63.5	0.002
SUICIDALITY
Suicide thoughts	10.9	37.6	<0.001	46.0	<0.001	21.4	<0.001
Suicide plan	8.0	31.0	<0.001	37.6	<0.001	18.6	<0.001
Suicide attempt	3.4	22.8	<0.001	24.6	<0.001	8.2	<0.001

Note. P-values derived from Rao-Scott chi-squared tests adjusting for correlations of students within schools.

^aCompared with heterosexuals.