Depressed mood, suicidal behaviors, and health risk behaviors among youths in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: the 2017 CNMI Youth Risk Behavior Survey

Table 4 Prevalence of depressed mood and suicidal behaviors by demographic variables and academic performance

Demographic variables	Depressed mood		Suicide ideation		Suicide plan		Suicide attempt
Demographic variables	Yes (n = 786)	p-value	Yes (n = 498)	p-value	Yes (n = 459)	p-value	Yes (n = 241)	p-value
Gender		< 0.0001		< 0.0001		< 0.0001		< 0.0001
Female	49.5		32.5		28.4		17.2
Male	32.0		17.5		17.2		9.8
Age		0.211		0.286		0.325		0.047
<=14 years old	9.4		8.8		10.7		10.9
15 years old	26.8		25.6		26.3		28.4
16 years old	30.1		31.6		31.5		31.7
17 years old	24.6		22.7		23.3		21.5
> = 18 years old	9.1		11.3		8.3		7.5
Grade		0.062		0.809		0.536		0.446
9th grade	45.0		25.5		25.0		15.0
10th grade	40.2		23.9		23.7		14.4
11th grade	40.5		24.6		21.3		12.7
12th grade	33.0		27.0		19.4		8.8
Race/Ethnicity		0.137		0.041		0.474		0.045
Asian	39.6		21.8		20.9		10.0
Pacific Islander	41.3		28.5		24.9		15.5
Black	21.3		33.2		19.9		16.6
Hispanic	44.2		0.0		0.0		0.0
White	11.5		0.0		16.2		12.4
Academic performance		0.042		0.001		0.002		0.001
Mostly A’s	35.0		22.3		19.3		10.3
Mostly B’s	41.8		21.7		21.8		11.2
Mostly C’s	41.1		27.7		23.2		14.9
Mostly D’s	47.9		27.1		25.7		16.1
Mostly F’s	58.8		57.8		54.9		32.5

Note. Rao-Scott chi-square test was used to test the independence regarding the combination of a demographic or academic performance variable and an outcome

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