Determinants associated with suicidal ideation among athletes (n=192) having participated in the Swedish Athletics team 2011–17 (ORs (95% CI) established by binary logistic regression analyses)
| Male athletes (n=86) | Female athletes (n=106) | All athletes (n=192) | ||||
| Simple models | Multiple model Nagelkerke R 2=0.25 | Simple models | Multiple model Nagelkerke R 2=0.33 | Simple models | Multiple model Nagelkerke R 2=0.25 | |
| Personal characteristics | ||||||
| Financially disadvantaged childhood | n.s. | 5.40 (1.59 to 18.4) (p=0.007) | 2.46 (1.01 to 6.02) (p=0.048) | |||
| Parents immigrants | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | |||
| Endurance athlete | n.s.* | n.s. | n.s. | |||
| At-peak athlete | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | |||
| Training load | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | |||
| Abuse victimisation | ||||||
| Sexual abuse | n.s. | 4.85 (1.45 to 16.3) (p=0.011) | 5.94 (1.42 to 24.9) (p=0.015) | 3.22 (1.17 to 8.82) (p=0.023) | ||
| Physical abuse | n.s. | n.s. | n.s.† | |||
| Bullying | n.s. | n.s.‡ | 2.63 (1.16 to 5.97) (p=0.021) | |||
| Athletics | ||||||
| Athletics injury previous year | n.s. | n.s. | n.s§ | |||
| Sense of coherence | ||||||
| SOC-13 | 0.92 (0.87 to 0.97) (p=0.004) | 0.90 (0.85 to 0.96) (p<0.001) | 0.90 (0.85 to 0.96) (p=0.001) | 0.91 (0.88 to 0.95) (p<0.001) | 0.92 (0.88 to 0.96) (p<0.001) | |
| Coping strategies (Brief COPE) | ||||||
| Self-blame | n.s.¶ | 1.84 (1.19 to 2.82) (p=0.006) | 1.60 (1.21 to 2.11) (p=0.001) | 1.40 (1.05 to 1.87) (p=0.023) | ||
| ‘Exploiting support to take action’ | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | |||
| ‘Behavioural disengagement’ | 1.51 (1.18 to 1.95) (p=0.001) | 1.51 (1.18 to 1.95) (p=0.001) | 1.26 (1.06 to 1.51) (p=0.011) | 1.33 (1.16 to 1.52) (p<0.001) | ||
| ‘Humour and positive reframing’ | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | |||
| ‘Turning to religion’ | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | |||
*(0.30 (0.08 to 1.17) (p=0.084).
†(2.45 (0.87 to 6.93) (p=0.091).
‡(2.57 (0.85 to 7.79) (p=0.095).
§(1.97 (0.89 to 4.36) (p=0.094).
¶(1.46 (1.00 to 2.13) (p=0.051).
n.s, not significant at 5% level.