Table 4.

Correlates of marijuana use with repeated attempted suicide among senior high school students in Ghana, WHO GSHS, 2012¹⁵

Covariate	Modified Poisson	Modified Logistic	Modified Probit
	aPR (95% CI)	aOR (95% CI)	aβ (95% CI)
Marijuana use
No	Ref	Ref	Ref
Yes	3.02 (1.67 to 5.43)***	5.06 (3.19 to 11.64)***	0.95 (0.49 to 1.41)***
Sex
Female	Ref	Ref	Ref
Male	1.06 (0.55 to 2.07)	1.08 (0.47 to 2.45)	0.04 (–0.37 to 0.44)
Age group
≤17	Ref	Ref	Ref
18+	1.19 (0.56 to 2.51)	1.24 (0.50 to 3.10)	0.09 (–0.36 to 0.55)
Experience of hunger
No	Ref	Ref	Ref
Yes	1.31 (0.61 to 2.79)	1.38 (0.56 to 3.44)	0.14 (–0.29 to 0.57)
Bullying victimisation
No	Ref	Ref	Ref
Yes	3.10 (1.63 to 5.89)***	3.70 (1.74 to 7.88)***	0.69 (0.29 to 1.09)***
Social support at school
No	Ref	Ref	Ref
Yes	1.18 (0.56 to 2.49)	1.23 (0.48 to 3.17)	0.14 (–0.35 to 0.63)
Loneliness
No	Ref	Ref	Ref
Yes	2.02 (0.54 to 1.95)	1.03 (0.46 to 2.28)	0.03 (–0.37 to 0.44)
Engaging in physical fights
No	Ref	Ref	Ref
Yes	1.31 (0.62 to 2.73)	1.39 (0.56 to 3.44)	0.17 (–0.30 to 0.64)

aPR denote adjusted prevalence ratio from Poisson regression; aOR denote adjusted OR from Logistic regression and aβ denote normalised coefficient estimate from Probit regression; Ref denotes Reference category used for inferences; p value indication: *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.

GSHS, Global School-Based Student Health Survey.