Parental psychopathology and other childhood family adversities were found to be consistently significant predictors of 12-month suicide ideation in both developed and developing countries, with ORs in the range 1.6–4.8 (Median: 2.7; Inter-quartile range [IQR]: 2.1–3.1). (Detailed results are not presented, but are available on request.) However, few of these measures significantly predicted either planned or unplanned suicide attempts among ideators (Table 3). In developed countries, childhood physical abuse predicted both planned and unplanned attempts, whereas sexual abuse predicted only planned suicide attempts, and childhood neglect and family violence predicted unplanned attempts. In developing countries, none of the 16 parental psychopathologies or childhood adversities considered in the analysis predicted planned attempts, while parental generalized anxiety disorder was the only significant predictor of unplanned attempts. The bivariate ORs of these significant predictors were in the range 2.3–4.4.
