Weighted percentage of suicide-related outcomes (SRO)* reported in wave 2 by wave 1 characteristics, and unadjusted ORs and AORs for risk of wave 2 SRO among persons reporting low mood at the NESARC wave 2 interview (N=7352)†
| Variable | n/N | Weighted percentage of wave 2 SRO | SE | OR‡ (95% CI) | AOR§ (95% CI) |
| Smoking history | |||||
| Current smoker in wave 1 | 809/2217 | 35.73 | 0.64 | 1.77 (1.64 to 1.90) | 1.41 (1.28 to 1.55) |
| Former smoker in wave 1 | 339/1280 | 26.68 | 0.67 | 1.16 (1.07 to 1.25) | 1.32 (1.21 to 1.43) |
| Never smoker in wave 1 | 981/3855 | 23.94 | 0.43 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| SRO in wave 1 | 1009/1940 | 50.01 | 0.76 | 3.84 (3.60 to 4.10) | 3.49 (3.18 to 3.84) |
| Demographics | |||||
| Gender | |||||
| Female | 1488/5090 | 28.51 | 0.36 | 1.05 (0.98 to 1.12) | 1.13 (1.04 to 1.22) |
| Male | 641/2262 | 27.54 | 0.59 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||
| White | 1253/4295 | 28.38 | 0.36 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Black | 333/1352 | 26.53 | 0.70 | 0.91 (0.84 to 0.99) | 0.84 (0.76 to 0.92) |
| Hispanic | 438/1342 | 30.33 | 0.52 | 1.10 (1.04 to 1.17) | 1.26 (1.16 to 1.36) |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 47/169 | 22.68 | 0.84 | 0.74 (0.67 to 0.82) | 0.93 (0.82 to 1.06) |
| American Indian | 58/194 | 27.18 | 2.81 | 0.94 (0.71 to 1.25) | 0.69 (0.51 to 0.92) |
| Age (years) | |||||
| 18–19 | 94/264 | 36.65 | 1.73 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| 20–29 | 410/1287 | 31.40 | 0.67 | 0.83 (0.69 to 0.98) | 0.77 (0.63 to 0.94) |
| 30–44 | 750/2438 | 29.32 | 0.62 | 0.75 (0.64 to 0.88) | 0.73 (0.60 to 0.90) |
| 45–64 | 679/2395 | 26.82 | 0.63 | 0.66 (0.56 to 0.78) | 0.69 (0.56 to 0.84) |
| 65 and older | 196/968 | 20.90 | 0.93 | 0.47 (0.39 to 0.57) | 0.68 (0.54 to 0.86) |
| Marital status | |||||
| Married | 836/3309 | 24.87 | 0.49 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Cohabiting | 86/230 | 35.58 | 1.67 | 1.67 (1.42 to 1.96) | 1.27 (1.07 to 1.51) |
| Widowed | 128/562 | 24.26 | 1.09 | 0.97 (0.85 to 1.10) | 0.92 (0.78 to 1.07) |
| Divorced | 390/1104 | 36.01 | 0.84 | 1.70 (1.57 to 1.84) | 1.20 (1.10 to 1.32) |
| Separated | 130/338 | 37.93 | 1.78 | 1.85 (1.58 to 2.15) | 1.29 (1.06 to 1.56) |
| Never married | 559/2129 | 30.87 | 0.69 | 1.35 (1.24 to 1.46) | 0.97 (0.87 to 1.09) |
| Education | |||||
| Less than high school | 440/1358 | 31.58 | 0.92 | 1.17 (1.04 to 1.32) | 1.09 (0.95 to 1.25) |
| High school diploma | 606/2111 | 28.27 | 0.74 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Some college or more | 1083/3883 | 27.08 | 0.35 | 0.94 (0.87 to 1.02) | 1.08 (1.00 to 1.17) |
| Lifetime psychiatric disorder | |||||
| Axis I disorders | |||||
| Alcohol use | 811/2350 | 32.74 | 0.60 | 1.40 (1.31 to 1.49) | 0.95 (0.87 to 1.04) |
| Substance use | 427/1033 | 38.42 | 0.94 | 1.75 (1.61 to 1.89) | 0.98 (0.88 to 1.09) |
| Anxiety | 843/2278 | 37.57 | 0.60 | 1.72 (1.62 to 1.83) | 1.08 (1.01 to 1.17) |
| Mood | 1217/3151 | 36.62 | 0.48 | 2.04 (1.92 to 2.17) | 0.77 (0.70 to 0.84) |
| Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | 208/394 | 51.14 | 1.42 | 2.87 (2.56 to 3.22) | 1.56 (1.36 to 1.79) |
| Axis II disorders | |||||
| Borderline | 821/1433 | 55.75 | 0.79 | 4.49 (4.22 to 4.77) | 2.91 (2.69 to 3.16) |
| Schizotypal | 485/886 | 53.41 | 1.26 | 3.44 (3.09 to 3.84) | 1.50 (1.31 to 1.72) |
| Narcissistic | 443/993 | 42.49 | 1.01 | 2.08 (1.89 to 2.29) | 1.03 (0.92 to 1.14) |
| Avoidant | 245/446 | 51.87 | 1.37 | 2.97 (2.66 to 3.32) | 1.29 (1.05 to 1.58) |
| Antisocial | 188/395 | 41.55 | 1.39 | 1.89 (1.68 to 2.13) | 0.85 (0.72 to 1.01) |
| Dependent | 58/90 | 56.90 | 2.90 | 3.44 (2.74 to 4.30) | 1.04 (0.76 to 1.41) |
| Obsessive-compulsive | 377/961 | 36.07 | 1.05 | 1.53 (1.39 to 1.69) | 0.90 (0.80 to 1.00) |
| Paranoid | 364/756 | 45.74 | 1.16 | 2.37 (2.14 to 2.62) | 0.95 (0.82 to 1.10) |
| Schizoid | 210/473 | 43.81 | 1.26 | 2.10 (1.89 to 2.33) | 1.01 (0.88 to 1.16) |
| Histrionic | 129/266 | 44.42 | 1.83 | 2.10 (1.82 to 2.43) | 0.76 (0.63 to 0.93) |
↵* SRO: feel like want to die, suicide ideation, suicide attempt; 0 = none, 1 = any SRO.
↵† Missing observations for specific variables: race, 43; Hispanic origin, 2; age, 13; marital status, 4; educational attainment, 70; household income, 2544; unemployed, 28; wave 2 individual SRO, 12–18 ‘unknown’ changed to ‘no’. Treatment of unknown values in determination of psychiatric diagnosis variables is known only to original NESARC project staff at National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
↵‡ ORs and 95% CIs based on simple regression models estimating wave 2 SRO as a function of an individual predictor variable.
↵§ AORs and 95% CIs based on a multiple logistic regression estimating wave 2 SRO as a function of age, sex, race/ethnicity, marital status, income, education, unemployed status, Census region, urban residence, smoking status, Axis I and Axis II disorders (as described in text) and lifetime SRO prior to wave 1.
AOR, adjusted OR; NESARC, National Epidemiological Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions; SRO, suicide-related outcome.