Table 2.
Prevalence of past-year suicidal ideation and suicide attempts by sexual minority status among Chinese adolescents (n=150 822)
| Males (N=72 409) | Females (N=78 413) | |||||||
| Heterosexual=1 | SSA=2 | BSA=3 | Unsure=4 | Heterosexual=5 | SSA=6 | BSA=7 | Unsure=8 | |
| No (%) | No (%) | No (%) | No (%) | No (%) | No (%) | No (%) | No (%) | |
| Suicidal ideation | ||||||||
| No | 48 572 (85.5) | 795 (78.4) | 919 (65.3) | 11 067 (88.3) | 47 941 (81.2) | 706 (69.6) | 1839 (57.7) | 12 527 (85.1) |
| Yes | 8771 (14.5) | 243 (21.6) | 526 (34.7) | 1516 (11.7) | 11 490 (18.8) | 309 (30.4) | 1348 (42.3) | 2253 (14.9) |
| Suicide attempts | ||||||||
| No | 55 991 (97.8) | 962 (93.1) | 1267 (87.8) | 12 184 (96.9) | 57 552 (96.9) | 923 (91.1) | 2820 (89.1) | 14 318 (96.8) |
| Yes | 1352 (2.2) | 76 (6.9) | 178 (12.2) | 399 (3.1) | 1879 (3.1) | 92 (8.9) | 367 (10.9) | 462 (3.2) |
All numbers were unweighted, whereas all percentages were adjusted for sampling weights.
The alpha level for paired comparison was set at p=0.0083 after Bonferroni correction.
Paired comparison for suicidal ideation: Paired comparison for suicide attempts:
2>1, χ2=51.42, P<0.001; 6>5, χ2=78.41, P<0.001; 2>1, χ2=105.29, P<0.001; 6>5, χ2=110.22, P<0.001.
3>1, χ2=471.59, P<0.001; 7>5, χ2=978.63, P<0.001; 3>1, χ2=551.67, P<0.001; 7>5, χ2=610.42, P<0.001.
3>2, χ2=47.69, P<0.001; 7>6, χ2=45.29, P<0.001; 3>2, χ2=16.42, P<0.001; 7>6, χ2=4.76, P=0.029.
4<1, χ2=86.74, P<0.001; 8<5, χ2=131.20, P<0.001; 4>1, χ2=27.95, P<0.001; 8>5, χ2=0.05, P=0.824.
4<2, χ2=110.08, P<0.001; 8<6, χ2=161.47, P<0.001; 4<2, χ2=49.09, P<0.001; 8<6, χ2=98.96, P<0.001;.
4<3, χ2=618.07, P<0.001; 8<7, χ2=1197.33, P<0.001; 4<3, χ2=274.99, P<0.001; 8<7, χ2=419.29, P<0.001.
BSA, both-sex romantic attraction; SSA, same-sex romantic attraction.