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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2019 Dec 9;59(9):1058–1068.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2019.10.015

Table 4.

Lifetime Mental Health Service Utilization and Reason for Emergency Department (ED) Visit in Relation to Demographics and Latent Classes (Adjusted Odds Ratios [OR])

Psychiatric Hospitalization Psychiatric Medication Outpatient Therapy ED Visit – Psychiatric Complaint

OR p OR p OR p OR p
Age in years 0.98 (0.91, 1.07) 0.70 1.04 (0.96, 1.12) 0.30 1.05 (0.97, 1.14) 0.27 0.92 (0.84, 1.00) 0.049
Sex 0.06 0.49 0.63 0.054
 Male Participants (reference) (reference) (reference) (reference)
 Female Participants 1.33 (0.99, 1.78) 0.91 (0.70, 1.18) 0.93 (0.70, 1.24) 0.74 (0.55, 1.00)
Race 0.08 <.001 <.001 0.09
 White (reference) (reference) (reference) (reference)
 Black 0.69 (0.50, 0.95) 0.33 (0.25, 0.45) 0.30 (0.22, 0.41) 0.73 (0.52, 1.02)
 Other/Unknown 0.87 (0.59, 1.27) 0.70 (0.50, 0.99) 0.83 (0.57, 1.21) 0.74 (0.50, 1.09)
Ethnicity 0.12 <.001 <.001 0.08
 Not Hispanic/Latino (reference) (reference) (reference) (reference)
 Hispanic or Latino 0.68 (0.47, 0.98) 0.52 (0.38, 0.71) 0.44 (0.31, 0.61) 0.69 (0.48, 1.00)
 Unknown 0.96 (0.55, 1.66) 1.01 (0.61, 1.67) 0.75 (0.44, 1.25) 1.22 (0.72, 2.07)
Latent Classes <.001 <.001 0.003 <.001
 HX-STB (reference) (reference) (reference) (reference)
 HX-STB+AGG 1.70 (1.11, 2.58) 1.94 (1.30, 2.88) 1.50 (0.98, 2.32) 2.50 (1.62, 3.88)
 STB 0.99 (0.66, 1.47) 1.53 (1.09, 2.15) 1.25 (0.87, 1.81) 7.43 (5.21, 10.61)
 S-STB 1.76 (1.28, 2.43) 1.92 (1.42, 2.59) 1.71 (1.21, 2.41) 29.30 (20.23, 42.44)
 S-STB+AGG 2.60 (1.70, 3.97) 3.22 (2.06, 5.03) 2.15 (1.29, 3.60) 23.43 (14.38, 38.17)

Note: 95% Confidence intervals provided for odds ratios. S-STB+AGG= Severe Suicidal Thoughts/Behavior + Aggression; S-STB= Severe Suicidal Thoughts/Behavior; STB= Suicidal Thoughts/Behavior; HX-STB+AGG= History of Suicidal Thoughts/Behavior + Aggression; HX-STB= History of Suicidal Thoughts/Behavior.