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Table 2 Logistic regression analysis of substance use on running away among the adolescents of the 2004--2006 street outreach programme in Taiwan.

From: Running away experience and psychoactive substance use among adolescents in Taiwan: multi-city street outreach survey

  

Alcohol use

Tobacco use

Experience of running away

N

n (%)

aORa (95% CI)

n (%)

aORa (95% CI)

Lifetime use model

     

   Severity of running away

     

   Never ran away

15507

4520 (29.2)

1.0

2232 (14.4)

1.0

   Trial running awayb

441

217 (49.2)

1.5 (1.2-1.8)

164 (37.2)

1.9 (1.5-2.4)

   Extended running away

1141

724 (63.5)

1.9 (1.7-2.2)

657 (57.6)

2.9 (2.5-3.4)

Past 6-months' use model

     

Time since the first running away

     

   Never ran away

15507

3809 (24.6)

1.0

1523 (9.8)

1.0

   < 6 months

176

94 (53.4)

2.0 (1.4-2.8)

68 (38.6)

2.6 (1.7-3.8)

   ≥ 6 months

1450

773 (53.3)

1.7 (1.5-2.0)

603 (41.6)

2.5 (2.1-2.8)

  

Betel nut use

Illegal drug/inhalant use

Experience of running away

N

n (%)

aOR a (95% CI)

n (%)

aOR a (95% CI)

Lifetime use model

     

   Severity of running away

     

   Never ran away

15507

400 (2.6)

1.0

239 (1.5)

1.0

   Trial running awayb

441

29 (6.6)

1.4 (1.0-2.1)

26 (5.9)

1.6 (1.0-2.6)

   Extended running away

1141

173 (15.2)

2.4 (1.9-3.1)

190 (16.7)

3.0 (2.3-3.9)

Past 6-months' use model

     

Time since the first running away

     

   Never ran away

15507

235 (1.5)

1.0

171 (1.1)

1.0

   < 6 months

176

7 (4.0)

1.1 (0.5-2.6)

13 (7.4)

2.1 (1.1-4.3)

   ≥ 6 months

1450

142 (9.8)

2.5 (1.9-3.3)

147 (10.1)

2.6 (1.9-3.4)

  1. aEstimates obtained from a logistic regression model, which took region clustering design effects into account and adjusted for survey year, gender, age, family structure, attending school, having a job, weekly allowance, truancy, and sexual experience
  2. bWith 44 subjects deleted from this analysis because they had a single episode of running away that lasting 1 day or less and was within the past 6 months