Table 4.
Adjustment for potential mediators for the association between religious service attendance in 1996 and suicide.
| Religious service attendance in 1996 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Never | Less than once /week | Once or more /week | |
| Multivariate adjusted model from Table 3 model c | Reference | 0.85 (0.36–2.00) | 0.16 (0.06–0.46) |
| Further adjusted for mediators: | |||
| + Social Integration score in 2000 | Reference | 0.85 (0.36–2.02) | 0.16 (0.06–0.46) |
| + Alcohol consumption in 1998 | Reference | 0.86 (0.36–2.05) | 0.16 (0.06–0.45) |
| + Depressive symptoms or antidepressant use in 2000 | Reference | 0.92 (0.39–2.17) | 0.17 (0.06–0.48) |
| + Alcohol consumption in 1998, social Integration score in 2000,and depressive symptoms or antidepressant use in 2000 | Reference | 0.94 (0.40–2.23) | 0.16 (0.06–0.46) |
Model adjusted for age, employment status (not employed outside the home or retired, employed part-time outside the home, employed full-time outside the home); family history of alcoholism (yes/no); body mass index (<20, 20–24.9, 25–29.9, 30–34.9, ≥35 kg/m2); physical activity in metabolic equivalent of tasks per week (quintiles); caffeine intake (g/day); alcohol intake (g/day); smoking status (never, former, and current in categories of 1–14, 15–24, and ≥25 cigarettes per day); depressive symptoms (yes/no), family income (quintiles, dollars/year), live alone (yes/no), geographic region (north, south, middle), and history of diabetes, hypertension, cancer or hypercholesterolemia (yes/no), religious service attendance in 1992 (never, less than once/week, once or more/week), other aspects of social integration in 1992,including marital status(not married, married), relative and friends score, relatives and friends frequency index, and social group participation (none, any number of hours).Social integration score, including score and frequency of relatives and friends were derived based on the definition from Am J Epidemiol 1979;109:186–204. For adjustment, we derived social integration score without religious service attendance components.
Mediator alcohol consumption in 1998 was modeled as >0.9 g/day vs. ≤ 0.9/day. Median level=0.9 g/day
Mediator depressive symptoms in 2000, antidepressant use was modeled as yes vs. no.
Mediator social integration score in 2000 was modeled as >3 vs. ≤3. Median level=3.