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Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2018 Feb 21;54(4):530–538. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.01.013

Table 4.

Association Between Sexual Orientation Discordance and High Suicide Risk^a Among High School Students, National YRBS, 2015

Sexual orientation discordance	Low risk for non-fatal suicidal behaviors^b	High risk for non-fatal suicidal behaviors^a

		Model 1 PR (95% CI)	Model 2 APR (95% CI)	Model 3 APR (95% CI)
Concordant^c	ref	ref	ref	ref
Discordant^d- All respondents	ref	2.1 (1.8, 2.4)	1.8 (1.5, 2.1)	1.7 (1.4, 2.0)
Discordant^d – Excluding students who have ever been forced to have sexual intercourse	ref	2.0 (1.7, 2.4)	1.7 (1.4, 2.2)	1.6 (1.3, 2.0)

Seriously considered attempting suicide, made a plan about how they would attempt suicide, or attempted suicide during the past 12 months.

Did not seriously consider attempting suicide, did not make a plan about how they would attempt suicide, and did not attempt suicide during the past 12 months.

Agreement between sexual identity and sex of sexual contacts.

Disagreement between sexual identity and sex of sexual contacts

Model 1: Crude association between sexual concordance status and high suicide risk.

Model 2: Adjusted for demographic characteristics such as sex, race/ethnicity, grade, and sexual identity.

Model 3: Adjusted for demographic characteristics (sex, race/ethnicity, grade, and sexual identity) and the following covariates: ever drank alcohol, ever used marijuana, bullied on school property during the past 12 months, and ever been physically forced to have sexual intercourse.

YRBS, Youth Risk Behavior Survey; PR, prevalence ratio; APR, adjusted prevalence ratio.