Nursing Research and Practice

Research Article

Predictors of Suicide Attempts of Individuals with Autism and Their Siblings

Table 2

Binary regression on variables that impact suicide attempts.


Variable	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
Variable	B (SE)	OR (CI)	B (SE)	OR (CI)	B (SE)	OR (CI)

Depression	0.008 (0.024)	1.008 (0.962, 1.057)	−0.048 (0.037)	0.954 (0.887, 1.025	−0.078 (0.045)	0.93 (0.847, 1.010)
Anxiety	0.078 (0.026)^†	1.081 (1.028, 1.137)	0.102 (0.038)^†	1.108 (1.028, 1.193)	0.131 (0.047)	1.14 (1.039, 1.251)
Age			−0.006 (0.027)	0.994 (0.942, 1.049)	−0.028 (0.036)	0.973 (0.907, 1.043)
Sibling of person Dx with ASD (ref: person Dx with ASD)			−0.970 (1.171)	0.379 (0.038, 3.763)	−1.123 (1.213)	0.325 (0.030, 3.505)
Gender (ref: male and other)			−1.049 (0.862)	0.35 (0.065, 1.897)	−1.391 (1.021)	0.249 (0.034, 1.839)
Sexual orientation (ref: non-heterosexual)			−3.672 (0.943)	0.025 (0.004, 0.161)	−3.925 (1.010)	0.02 (0.002, 0.170)
Race (ref: non-caucasian)			0.317 (0.945)	1.374 (0.215, 8.756)	0.708 (1.066)	2.029 (0.251, 16.408)
Marital status (ref: other arrangement)
Single			−1.966 (0.992)	0.14 (0.020, 0.979)	−1.900 (1.205)	0.15 (0.014, 1.586)
Married			1.040 (0.961)	2.829 (0.431, 18.596)	1.802 (1.154)	6.061 (0.632, 58.172)
Education (ref: other)
Undergraduate					−0.654 (1.129)	0.52 (0.057, 4.757)
Master					−0.742 (1.120)	0.476 (0.053, 4.280)
Employed (ref: not employed)					−0.073 (1.035)	0.929 (0.122, 7.071)
Personal income					0.622 (1.106)	1.863 (0.213, 16.298)
Social support-significant other					−0.496 (0.328)	0.609 (0.320, 1.159)
Social support-family					−0.060 (0.311)	0.941 (0.512, 1.731)
Social support-friend					0.016 (0.316)	1.016 (0.547, 1.885)

Note. ; ; and . Reference group: gender: male; marital status: other arrangements (i.e., divorced, widowed, separated, living with partner, or single); race: non-Caucasian; sexual orientation: nonheterosexual. B: coefficient; CI: 95% confidence interval; Dx: diagnosed; OR: odds ratio; and ref: reference group.