Prevalence and correlates of destructive behaviors in the US Naval Surface Forces from 2010–2020

Lai, Kevin; Jameson, Jason T.; Russell, Dale W.

doi:10.1186/s40359-023-01134-1

BMC Psychology

Table 3 Suicide risk behaviors: distribution of selected characteristics for the total sample and by demographics across the years

From: Prevalence and correlates of destructive behaviors in the US Naval Surface Forces from 2010–2020

	Pacific Fleet (2010–2018)
	2010		2011		2012		2013		2014		2015		2016		2017		2018
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Suicide ideations
Gender			p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.05		p < 0.001		p > 0.05		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
Female			115	23.61	117	22.81	106	24.54	110	22.22	108	30.00	93	22.09	130	27.96	123	30.00
Male			372	76.39	396	77.19	326	75.46	385	77.78	252	70.00	328	77.91	335	72.04	287	70.00
Other			2						2
Age			p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
25 and under			340	70.54	343	67.25	301	70.33	373	75.20	265	73.61	304	72.38	309	66.45	296	72.20
26–30			83	17.22	90	17.65	81	18.93	77	15.52	55	15.28	63	15.00	95	20.43	73	17.80
31–35			35	7.26	43	8.43	23	5.37	20	4.03	26	7.22	29	6.90	30	6.45	23	5.61
36–40			20	4.15	24	4.71	19	4.44	18	3.63	11	3.06	18	4.29	20	4.30	13	3.17
41+			4	0.83	10	1.96	4	0.93	8	1.61	3	0.83	6	1.43	11	2.37	5	1.22
Other			7		3		4		1				1
Race			p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05
White			319	80.96	319	78.38	268	75.49	321	80.05	229	78.97	292	78.49	307	76.94	288	78.90
Black			75	19.04	88	21.62	87	24.51	80	19.95	61	21.03	80	21.51	92	23.06	77	21.10
Other			95		106		77		96		70		49		66		45
Rank			p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
E1–E3			217	46.67	178	36.03	176	41.71	206	42.92	138	39.20	181	42.99	161	34.62	161	39.27
E4–E6			227	48.82	289	58.50	225	53.32	249	51.88	199	56.53	208	49.41	267	57.42	224	54.63
E7–E9			9	1.94	14	2.83	13	3.08	15	3.13	4	1.14	14	3.33	15	3.23	12	2.93
Officer/CWO			12	2.58	13	2.63	8	1.90	10	2.08	11	3.13	18	4.28	22	4.73	13	3.17
Other			24		19		10		17		8
Suicide attempts
Gender			p > 0.05		p < 0.001		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p < 0.01		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.01
Female			13	19.12	38	34.23	4	17.39	7	23.33	17	32.08	20	38.46	42	39.62	28	32.56
Male			55	80.88	73	65.77	19	82.61	23	76.67	36	67.92	32	61.54	64	60.38	58	67.44
Other
Age			p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
25 and under			52	78.79	80	72.07	16	69.57	15	51.72	39	73.58	39	75.00	83	78.30	61	70.93
26–30			7	10.61	17	15.32	4	17.39	4	13.79	13	24.53	11	21.15	14	13.21	13	15.12
31–35			7	10.61	7	6.31	2	8.70	3	10.34	1	1.89	1	1.92	4	3.77	4	4.65
36–40			0	0.00	4	3.60	0	0.00	5	17.24	0	0.00	1	1.92	4	3.77	5	5.81
41+			0	0.00	3	2.70	1	4.35	2	6.90	0	0.00	0	0.00	1	0.94	3	3.49
Other			2						1
Race			p < 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05
White			37	64.91	67	72.04	16	84.21	20	74.07	29	74.36	30	66.67	72	77.42	56	76.71
Black			20	35.09	26	27.96	3	15.79	7	25.93	10	25.64	15	33.33	21	22.58	17	23.29
Other			11		18		4		3		14		7		13		13
Rank			p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.01
E1–E3			33	49.25	51	46.36	7	30.43	9	31.03	21	39.62	24	46.15	50	47.17	30	34.88
E4–E6			33	49.25	55	50.00	14	60.87	15	51.72	30	56.60	27	51.92	54	50.94	46	53.49
E7–E9			0	0.00	2	1.82	2	8.70	3	10.34	1	1.89	0	0.00	1	0.94	1	1.16
Officer/CWO			1	1.49	2	1.82	0	0.00	2	6.90	1	1.89	1	1.92	1	0.94	9	10.47
Other			1		1				1
Suicides
Gender	p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05
Female	1	7.69	0	0.00	0	0.00	1	10.00	0	0.00	1	11.11	0	0.00	1	6.67	3	14.29
Male	12	92.31	10	100.00	12	100.00	9	90.00	14	100.00	8	88.89	16	100.00	14	93.33	18	85.71
Other			1
Age	p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p < 0.001		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05
25 and under	8	61.54	0	0.00	6	50.00	4	40.00	5	35.71	6	66.67	7	43.75	5	33.33	12	57.14
26–30	2	15.38	4	40.00	2	16.67	4	40.00	2	14.29	2	22.22	4	25.00	6	40.00	3	14.29
31–35	1	7.69	2	20.00	3	25.00	1	10.00	3	21.43	1	11.11	3	18.75	2	13.33	2	9.52
36–40	2	15.38	3	30.00		0.00	0	0.00	4	28.57		0.00	1	6.25	2	13.33	1	4.76
41+		0.00	1	10.00	1	8.33	1	10.00		0.00		0.00	1	6.25		0.00	3	14.29
Other			1	1.47
Race	p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p < 0.05		p > 0.05
White	9	81.82	7	70.00	7	77.78	8	100.00	12	100.00	4	57.14	13	86.67	14	100.00	15	93.75
Black	2	18.18	3	30.00	2	22.22	0	0.00	0	0.00	3	42.86	2	13.33	0	0.00	1	6.25
Other	2		1		3		2		2		2		1		1		5
Rank	p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05
E1–E3	2	15.38	0	0.00	2	16.67	1	10.00	1	7.14	5	55.56	2	12.50	3	20.00	4	19.05
E4–E6	9	69.23	7	70.00	9	75.00	7	70.00	9	64.29	3	33.33	11	68.75	8	53.33	13	61.90
E7–E9	0	0.00	1	10.00	0	0.00	1	10.00	0	0.00	1	11.11	2	12.50	2	13.33	2	9.52
Officer/CWO	2	15.38	2	20.00	1	8.33	1	10.00	4	28.57	0	0.00	1	6.25	2	13.33	2	9.52
Other			1

	Pacific and Atlantic Fleet (2019–2020)
	2019		2020		Total incidents		Navy average demographics 2010–2020
	N	%	N	%	N	%	%
Suicide ideations
Gender	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
Female	264	30.95	520	28.03	1686	26.80	18.26
Male	589	69.05	1335	71.97	4605	73.20	81.74
Other	6		15		25
Age	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
25 and under	590	70.91	1288	69.85	4409	70.58	42.07
26–30	149	17.91	324	17.57	1090	17.45	23.06
31–35	51	6.13	154	8.35	434	6.95	15.21
36–40	25	3.00	56	3.04	224	3.59	10.86
41+	17	2.04	22	1.19	90	1.44	8.81
Other	27		26		69
Race	p < 0.01		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
White	464	73.30	981	71.19	3788	75.85	78.06
Black	169	26.70	397	28.81	1206	24.15	21.94
Other	226		492		1322
Rank	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
E1–E3	323	38.68	663	36.21	2404	38.93	22.57
E4–E6	470	56.29	1063	58.06	3421	55.40	51.40
E7–E9	27	3.23	46	2.51	169	2.74	9.30
Officer/CWO	15	1.80	59	3.22	181	2.93	16.73
Other	24		39		141
Suicide attempts
Gender	p < 0.01		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
Female	39	31.71	74	38.54	282	33.41	18.26
Male	84	68.29	118	61.46	562	66.59	81.74
Other
Age	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
25 and under	92	75.41	137	73.66	614	73.62	42.07
26–30	18	14.75	29	15.59	130	15.59	23.06
31–35	4	3.28	16	8.60	49	5.88	15.21
36–40	5	4.10	2	1.08	26	3.12	10.86
41+	3	2.46	2	1.08	15	1.80	8.81
Other	1		6		10
Race	p > 0.05		p < 0.01		p < 0.001
White	70	73.68	98	67.59	495	72.16	78.06
Black	25	26.32	47	32.41	191	27.84	21.94
Other	28		47		158
Rank	p < 0.001		p < 0.001		p < 0.001
E1–E3	45	37.19	77	40.53	347	41.46	22.57
E4–E6	69	57.02	105	55.26	448	53.52	51.40
E7–E9	4	3.31	4	2.11	18	2.15	9.30
Officer/CWO	3	2.48	4	2.11	24	2.87	16.73
Other	2		2		7
Suicides
Gender	p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p < 0.001
Female	2	9.52	4	10.81	13	7.30	18.26
Male	19	90.48	33	89.19	165	92.70	81.74
Other					1
Age	p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p > 0.05
25 and under	12	57.14	15	55.56	87	48.88	42.07
26–30	6	28.57	4	14.81	41	23.03	23.06
31–35	1	4.76	6	22.22	25	14.04	15.21
36–40	2	9.52	2	7.41	17	9.55	10.86
41+		0.00		0.00	8	4.49	8.81
Other					1
Race	p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p < 0.01
White	15	93.75	26	86.67	130	87.84	78.06
Black	1	6.25	4	13.33	18	12.16	21.94
Other	5		7		31
Rank	p > 0.05		p > 0.05		p < 0.05
E1–E3	8	38.10	9	24.32	37	20.79	22.57
E4–E6	10	47.62	24	64.86	110	61.80	51.40
E7–E9	1	4.76	3	8.11	13	7.30	9.30
Officer/CWO	2	9.52	1	2.70	18	10.11	16.73
Other					1

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