Prevalence of self-reported suicidal thoughts in SLiCA. The survey of living conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA)

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Table 1. Sample characteristics (n=2099)

	Greenland	Norway	Sweden	Alaska	P-value*
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
Age					<0.0001
15–34	332 (34)	71 (21)	48 (24)	224 (39)
35–59	527 (54)	209 (61)	109 (56)	281 (49)
60–84	126 (13)	63 (18)	39 (20)	70 (12)
Gender					0.03
Male	473 (48)	171 (50)	102 (52)	243 (42)
Female	512 (52)	172 (50)	94 (48)	332 (58)
Education					<0.0001
Less than high school/vocational school	573 (59)	45 (13)	26 (15)	155 (27)
High school/vocational school	312 (32)	109 (32)	103 (59)	387 (67)
University	89 (9)	187 (55)	46 (26)	32 (6)

*Chi-square tests.

Table 2. Suicidal thoughts by country, gender and age

	Suicide thoughts	Greenland	Norway	Sweden	Alaska	P-value
		n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
Total	Yes, last year	83 (8)	6 (2)	3 (2)	33 (6)	0.003*
	Yes, but not last year	87 (9)	32 (9)	7 (4)	47 (8)
	No	815 (83)	305 (89)	186 (95)	495 (86)
Male
Age
15–34	Yes, last year	15 (10)	1 (3)	0	9 (9)	0.57**
	Yes, but not last year	17 (11)	2 (6)	1 (5)	7 (7)
	No	124 (79)	29 (91)	21 (95)	81 (84)
35–59	Yes, last year	11 (4)	0	1 (2)	3 (3)	0.41**
	Yes, but not last year	17 (7)	6 (6)	2 (4)	8 (7)
	No	225 (89)	92 (94)	54 (95)	99 (90)
60–84	Yes, last year	1 (2)	0	0	0	0.84**
	Yes, but not last year	3 (5)	3 (7)	0	1 (3)
	No	60 (94)	38 (93)	23 (100)	35 (97)
Female
Age
15–34	Yes, last year	34 (19)	4 (10)	1 (4)	14 (11)	0.05**
	Yes, but not last year	26 (15)	8 (21)	2 (8)	12 (9)
	No	116 (66)	27 (69)	23 (88)	101 (80)
35–59	Yes, last year	22 (8)	1 (1)	0	7 (4)	0.01**
	Yes, but not last year	23 (8)	11 (10)	1 (2)	16 (9)
	No	229 (84)	99 (89)	51 (98)	148 (87)
60–84	Yes, last year	0	0	1 (6)	0	0.08**
	Yes, but not last year	1 (2)	2 (9)	1 (6)	3 (9)
	No	61 (98)	20 (91)	14 (88)	31 (91)

*Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel test for differences across countries adjusted for age and gender.

**Fisher exact test.

Table 3. Ordinal logistic regression. Age group 60–84 excluded due to very small numbers of suicide thoughts

	Model 1 (n = 1801) ^a	Model 2 (n=1783) ^b
	OR	95% C.I.	OR	95% C.I.
Country
Greenland	1.48	(1.10–2.00)	1.27	(0.92–1.76)
Norway	0.87	(0.56–1.36)	1.03	(0.63–1.70)
Sweden	0.34	(0.16–0.73)	0.39	(0.18–0.85)
Alaska	1.0 (ref)		1.0 (ref)
Gender
Female	1.71	(1.31–2.24)	1.74	(1.32–2.28)
Male	1.0 (ref)		1.0 (ref)
Age
15–34	2.28	(1.76–2.96)	2.18	(1.68–2.84)
35–59	1.0 (ref)		1.0 (ref)
Education
Less than high school/vocational school			1.0 (ref)
High school/vocational school			0.65	(0.48–0.88)
University			0.54	(0.33–0.87)

^aExplanatory variables in model 1 were country, age group and gender.

^bExplanatory variables in model 2 were country, age group, gender and education.