Table 4.
Multivariable Logistic Regression Models for Adult Support on Suicidality, Stratified by Sexual Orientation (N=22,834): MetroWest Adolescent Health Survey, Massachusetts, 2012
| Suicide thoughts | Suicide plan | Suicide attempt | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | (95% CI) | OR | (95% CI) | OR | (95% CI) | ||||
| Heterosexual (n=21,002) | |||||||||
| Outside-school adult support | 0.30 | (0.27, 0.33) | *** | 0.29 | (0.25, 0.34) | *** | 0.27 | (0.22, 0.35) | *** |
| Within-school adult support | 0.82 | (0.75, 0.90) | *** | 0.75 | (0.69, 0.82) | *** | 0.81 | (0.69, 0.95) | ** |
| Gay/lesbian (n=290) | |||||||||
| Outside-school adult support | 0.66 | (0.33, 1.32) | 0.48 | (0.23, 1.03) | 0.48 | (0.24, 0.94) | * | ||
| Within-school adult support | 1.04 | (0.57, 1.90) | 1.20 | (0.66, 2.20) | 1.12 | (0.50, 2.52) | |||
| Bisexual (n=763) | |||||||||
| Outside-school adult support | 0.66 | (0.48, 0.89) | ** | 0.56 | (0.41, 0.78) | *** | 0.66 | (0.42, 1.03) | |
| Within-school adult support | 0.69 | (0.53, 0.91) | ** | 0.76 | (0.57, 1.03) | 0.74 | (0.52, 1.06) | ||
| Questioning (n=779) | |||||||||
| Outside-school adult support | 0.49 | (0.29, 0.80) | ** | 0.48 | (0.30, 0.77) | ** | 0.62 | (0.31, 1.23) | |
| Within-school adult support | 0.95 | (0.59, 1.52) | 0.97 | (0.62, 1.53) | 0.87 | (0.46, 1.63) | |||
Note. All models adjusted for gender, race /ethnicity, and grade in school and used Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) to adjust for clustering of students within schools; we coded outside- and within-school adult support variables as 0 for 'no/not sure' and 1 for 'yes';
OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval;
*
p < 0.05;
**
p < 0.01;
***
p < 0.001