Table 4.

Multivariate regression analysis of pharmacists’ stigma scores towards people who die by suicide.

Independent variables	Stigma subscore of eight stigma items describing people who die by suicide
	Estimate	Standard error	p value
Age	0.003	0.063	0.96
Male sex	1.89	0.57	0.001
Canada vs Australia	−1.54	0.602	0.011
Urban vs rural	0.5	0.58	0.38
Years of patient care experience as a pharmacist	0.037	0.063	0.56
Mental health crisis training (yes vs no)	−0.81	0.94	0.39
Length of time since mental health crisis training	0.013	0.023	0.56
Prepared to directly help a person in a suicidal crisis	−0.07	0.64	0.91
No. of times interacting with a person at risk of suicide (1–2 vs 0)	0.091	0.87	0.92
No. of times interacting with a person at risk of suicide (>2 vs 0)	−1.39	0.95	0.15
Patient cared for died from suicide	0.1	0.62	0.87
Diagnosed with mental illness	−0.95	0.59	0.11
Someone close to respondent lives with mental illness	−0.94	0.62	0.13
Someone close to respondent died from suicide	−0.37	0.55	0.5
Permissivenessa	−0.065	0.043	0.13
Preventabilitya	−0.3	0.086	0.0005
Assessment 1 (determined thoughts of suicide were present and whether the patient had any of the following: plan, intent, and means vs not asking any questions)	−0.29	0.73	0.69
Assessment 2 (determined thoughts of suicide were present but did not ask about a plan, intent, and means vs not asking any questions)	−0.23	0.76	0.77

^aItems from the Attitudes Towards Suicide Scale were combined to create variable for permissiveness (11 items)²⁶ and preventability (7 items).