Table 4.

Sociodemographic predictors of psychiatric treatment utilization among children with lifetime history of pure suicidal ideation (unweighted n = 1521).

	Any treatment
	Univariate		Multivariate
	OR (95% CI)	p	OR (95% CI)	p
Sex
Female	0.61 (0.47–0.78)	<0.001	0.63 (0.48–0.83)	<0.01
Male (reference)	1.00		1.00
Sexual orientation
Gay or bisexual	1.11 (0.57–2.15)	0.76	1.15 (0.57–2.34)	0.70
Do not understand the question	0.81 (0.61–1.08)	0.15
Not gay or bisexual (reference)	1.00		1.00
Race
Black	0.73 (0.51–1.03)	0.07	0.57 (0.37–0.89)	0.01
Multiracial	0.76 (0.53–1.08)	0.12	0.73 (0.49–1.07)	0.11
Other race	0.61 (0.36–1.01)	0.06	0.65 (0.37–1.13)	0.13
White (reference)	1.00		1.00
Ethnicity
Hispanic	0.61 (0.44–0.84)	<0.01	0.65 (0.43–0.97)	0.04
Non-Hispanic (reference)	1.00		1.00
Family income
Less than $25,000	1.40 (0.97–2.02)	0.07	1.84 (1.11–3.05)	0.02
$25,000–$49,999	1.36 (0.95–1.94)	0.09	1.52 (0.99-2.33)	0.06
$50,000–$74,999	1.11 (0.78–1.59)	0.56	1.06 (0.71–1.58)	0.78
$75,000 through $99,999	0.86 (0.59–1.27)	0.46	0.96 (0.65–1.43)	0.85
$100,000 and greater (reference)	1.00		1.00
Parental education
Less than high school	1.14 (0.41–3.16)	0.81	1.29 (0.35–4.78)	0.71
High school or GED	0.55 (0.37–0.81)	<0.01	0.45 (0.27–0.75)	<0.01
Some college	1.09 (0.79–1.49)	0.61	0.90 (0.62–1.31)	0.59
College graduate (reference)	1.00		1.00
Parental marital status
Not married	1.53 (1.20–1.96)	<0.01	1.58 (1.13–2.21)	<0.01
Married (reference)	1.00		1.00

Multivariate analyses controlled for all other sociodemographic factors. CI confidence interval, GED General Educational Development, OR odds ratio.