The Associations of Childhood Adversities and Mental Disorders with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors - Results from The World Mental Health International College Student Initiative

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the associations of demographic variables, childhood adversities (CAs), and mental disorders (MDx) with onset, transition, and persistence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB) among first-year university students.Method: Poisson regression models within a discrete-time survival framework were constructed using web-basedself-report survey data from 72,288 incoming university students across 18 countries (response rate=20.9%;median age=19 years, 57.9% female, 1.4% transgender, 21.0% non-heterosexual). These models examined theassociations of four demographic variables, five CAs, and eight MDx with STB outcomes.