Determinants of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts: parallel cross-sectional analyses examining geographical location

Table 3 Percentage of participants reporting lifetime and 12 month suicidal ideation and attempts in 2007-NSMHWB and ARMHS samples

Variable	2007-NSMHWB raw %			ARMHS raw %		ARMHS back-weighted % (99% CI)		Chi square p-value
Variable	Major cities n = 5388	Inner regional n = 1943	Other n = 1132	Inner regional n = 251	Other n = 383	Inner regional n = 251	Other n = 383	Chi square p-value
Lifetime suicidal ideation	14	15	16	26	23	19 (11.2, 27.2)	15 (9.5, 19.6)	0.254
12-month suicidal ideation	2.7	2.5	2.6	8.8	4.2	5.1 (1.7, 8.5)	1.9 (0.7, 3.2)	0.864
Lifetime suicide attempt	3.6	3.7	4.7	8.0	7.0	7.2 (1.6, 12.8)	4.8 (1.7, 7.9)	0.202
12-month suicide attempt	0.4	0.3	0.8	1.2	0.8	0.7 (0, 1.7)	0.4 (0, 1.0)	0.093

NSMHWB: National Survey of Mental Health and Well-being; ARMHS: Australian Rural Mental Health Study, raw percentages and back-weighted for K10 stratification (i.e., to adjust for selection strategy); CI: Confidence Intervals. Assessments were based on WMH-CIDI-3.0: World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview version 3.0.

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