Table 3.

Determinants associated with suicidal ideation among athletes (n=192) having participated in the Swedish Athletics team 2011–17 (ORs (95% CI) established by binary logistic regression analyses)

	Male athletes (n=86)		Female athletes (n=106)		All athletes (n=192)
	Simple models	Multiple model Nagelkerke R 2=0.25	Simple models	Multiple model Nagelkerke R 2=0.33	Simple models	Multiple model Nagelkerke R 2=0.25
Personal characteristics
Financially disadvantaged childhood	n.s.		5.40 (1.59 to 18.4) (p=0.007)		2.46 (1.01 to 6.02) (p=0.048)
Parents immigrants	n.s.		n.s.		n.s.
Endurance athlete	n.s.*		n.s.		n.s.
At-peak athlete	n.s.		n.s.		n.s.
Training load	n.s.		n.s.		n.s.
Abuse victimisation
Sexual abuse	n.s.		4.85 (1.45 to 16.3) (p=0.011)	5.94 (1.42 to 24.9) (p=0.015)	3.22 (1.17 to 8.82) (p=0.023)
Physical abuse	n.s.		n.s.		n.s.†
Bullying	n.s.		n.s.‡		2.63 (1.16 to 5.97) (p=0.021)
Athletics
Athletics injury previous year	n.s.		n.s.		n.s§
Sense of coherence
SOC-13	0.92 (0.87 to 0.97) (p=0.004)		0.90 (0.85 to 0.96) (p<0.001)	0.90 (0.85 to 0.96) (p=0.001)	0.91 (0.88 to 0.95) (p<0.001)	0.92 (0.88 to 0.96) (p<0.001)
Coping strategies (Brief COPE)
Self-blame	n.s.¶		1.84 (1.19 to 2.82) (p=0.006)		1.60 (1.21 to 2.11) (p=0.001)	1.40 (1.05 to 1.87) (p=0.023)
‘Exploiting support to take action’	n.s.		n.s.		n.s.
‘Behavioural disengagement’	1.51 (1.18 to 1.95) (p=0.001)	1.51 (1.18 to 1.95) (p=0.001)	1.26 (1.06 to 1.51) (p=0.011)		1.33 (1.16 to 1.52) (p<0.001)
‘Humour and positive reframing’	n.s.		n.s.		n.s.
‘Turning to religion’	n.s.		n.s.		n.s.

*(0.30 (0.08 to 1.17) (p=0.084).

†(2.45 (0.87 to 6.93) (p=0.091).

‡(2.57 (0.85 to 7.79) (p=0.095).

§(1.97 (0.89 to 4.36) (p=0.094).

¶(1.46 (1.00 to 2.13) (p=0.051).

n.s, not significant at 5% level.