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Table 2 Multivariate associations of military occupation with suicide attempt among Regular Army enlisted soldiers stratified by deployment statusa, b

From: Suicide attempts in U.S. Army combat arms, special forces and combat medics

 

Deployment Status

 

Never Deployed

(n = 67,336)

Currently Deployed

(n = 36,460)

Previously Deployed

(n = 57,521)

 

OR

(95% CI)

SREc

OR

(95% CI)

SREc

OR

(95% CI)

SREc

Occupation

 Combat arms

1.1*

(1.0–1.2)

610

1.0

(0.9–1.2)

159

1.3*

(1.2–1.4)

358

 Combat medic

1.5*

(1.3–1.6)

801

1.3*

(1.0–1.8)

208

1.2*

(1.0–1.5)

352

 Other

1.0

–

546

1.0

–

155

1.0

–

283

χ2 2

67.2*

 

4.5

 

32.8*

 
  1. aThe sample of enlisted soldiers (n = 9650 cases, 153,523 control person-months) is a subset of the total sample (n = 193,617 person-months) from the Army STARRS Historical Administrative Data Study (HADS). Control person-months were assigned a weight of 200 to adjust for under-sampling
  2. bLogistic regression models included gender, age at Army entry, current age, race/ethnicity, education, marital status, time in service (≤ 1 year, 2 years, 3–4 years, 5–10 years, >10 years), and military occupation. The models also included a dummy predictor variable for calendar month and year to control for secular trends
  3. cSRE = standardized risk estimates (suicide attempters per 100,000 person-years) were calculated assuming other predictors were at their sample-wide means
  4. *p < 0.05
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