Table 3.
Twelve-month prevalence of STB among current students, college attriters, and non-college attenders.
| Students (ST) | Attriters (AT) | Non-college attenders (NC)a | ST vs. ATb | ST vs. NCb | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | (SE) | % | (SE) | % | (SE) | OR | (95% CI) | χ2 | p | OR | (95% CI) | χ2 | p | |||
| 12-month suicidal ideation | 1.9 | (0.3) | 3.4 | (0.7) | 3.4 | (0.3) | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 0.105 | 0.5* | 0.4 | 0.8 | 10.4 | 0.001 |
| 12-month suicide plan | 0.3 | (0.2) | 1.0 | (0.4) | 1.1 | (0.2) | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 0.104 | 0.2* | 0.0 | 1.0 | 3.9 | 0.049 |
| 12-month suicide attempt | 0.2 | (0.1) | 1.2 | (0.4) | 0.8 | (0.2) | 0.2* | 0.0 | 0.7 | 6.4 | 0.011 | 0.3* | 0.1 | 0.9 | 4.7 | 0.030 |
Note: Respondents were limited to those in the Part II sample who were 18–22 years old at the time of interview and had not graduated from college. Significant odds ratios (OR) are shown in bold and marked with an asterisk * (α=0.05).
a
“Non-college attenders” were defined as those who never entered college whether or not they graduated from secondary school.
b
Based on a pooled within-survey logistic regression model adjusting for between-survey variation in the association of age-sex with student status.