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

From: 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

Demographic variables

Depressed mood

Suicide ideation

Suicide plan

Suicide attempt

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

 
  1. 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