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

Table 4 Logistic regression analysis of lifetime substance use on the reason of the first running away among the adolescents of the 2006 street outreach programme (n = 5695^a) in Taiwan.

		Alcohol use		Tobacco use
Reason of the first running away	N	n (%)	aOR^b (95% CI)	n (%)	aOR^b (95% CI)
Never ran away	5229	1256 (24.0)	1.0	666 (12.7)	1.0
Running from unsatisfactory family life	356	202 (56.7)	1.9 (1.5-2.4)	194 (54.5)	3.1 (2.4-4.0)
Running to excitement	89	52 (58.4)	1.9 (1.2-2.9)	48 (53.9)	2.5 (1.5-4.1)
Both	21	11 (52.4)	2.2 (0.9-5.3)	12 (57.1)	4.1 (1.5-11.6)
		Betel nut use		Illegal drug/inhalant use
Reason of the first running away	N	n (%)	aOR ^b (95% CI)	n (%)	aOR ^b (95% CI)
Never ran away	5229	119 (2.3)	1.0	59 (1.1)	1.0
Running from unsatisfactory family life	356	55 (15.5)	3.1 (2.1-4.7)	47 (13.2)	3.5 (2.2-5.5)
Running to excitement	89	10 (11.2)	1.7 (0.8-3.6)	9 (10.1)	2.5 (1.1-5.4)
Both	21	1 (4.8)	0.8 (0.1-5.8)	2 (9.5)	2.4 (0.5-12.5)

^a52 subjects with missing information on the reason for the first running away were not included in this analysis.
^bEstimates obtained from a logistic regression model that 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.

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