Psychopathology is associated with reproductive health risk in European adolescents

Table 2 Prevalence and odds of sexual initiation among European adolescents with and without psychopathology

		Total sample		Low non-sexual risk behaviours profile^b		High non-sexual risk behaviours profile^c
		%	OR (95% CI)^a	%	OR (95% CI)^a	%	OR (95% CI)^a
Depression	yes no	28.3 17.5	1.871 (1.628–2.150)	28.6 16.9	2.004 (1.642–2.446)	30.5 19.4	1.792 (1.360–2.362)
Anxiety	yes no	31.3 18.1	2.190 (1.856–2.586)	30.1 17.6	2.211 (1.732–2.821)	32.0 19.8	1.893 (1.360–2.633)
Severe suicidal ideation	yes no	33.3 18.2	2.259 (1.816–2.809)	34.0 17.7	2.434 (1.767–3.352)	33.6 19.9	1.972 (1.293–3.007)^d
Self-injurious behaviour	yes no	36.5 17.0	2.892 (2.500–3.345)	37.6 16.4	3.361 (2.732–4.134)	34.1 19.1	2.177 (1.622–2.921)
Suicide attempts	yes no	40.0 17.9	3.091 (2.504–3.816)	41.9 17.4	3.840 (2.824–5.223)	36.8 19.9	2.196 (1.430–3.371)

^aLogistic regression derived odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) measuring the strength of association between each psychopathological variable and the outcome “sexual initiation”. Odds ratios are adjusted for age and sex. All p-values are < 0.001 except for ^d p = 0.002
^bPupils scoring low on all non-sexual risk behaviours
^cPupils clustering on multiple non-sexual risk behaviours

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