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Table 2 Results adjusting for adolescent mental distress and for seeing parents drunk

From: Parental alcohol use and adolescent school adjustment in the general population: Results from the HUNT study

  

Attention

Conduct

 

N

d

95% C.I.

d

95% C.I.

Adjusted for adolescent mental distress

   Maternal alcohol

  

***

  

***

 

   Abuse

133

0.19

 

-0.01 - 0.40

0.24

*

0.03 - 0.45

   At risk

764

0.08

*

0.01 - 0.16

0.08

 

0.00 - 0.15

   Abstainer

489

-0.09

 

-0.18 - 0.01

-0.16

**

-0.26 - -0.06

   Missing response

2796

0.03

 

-0.02 - 0.08

-0.01

 

-0.06 - 0.04

   Light drinking

4546

0

  

0

  

   Paternal alcohol

  

**

  

***

 

   Abuse

215

0.20

**

0.05 - 0.35

0.17

*

0.01 - 0.33

   At risk

793

0.09

*

0.02 - 0.16

0.10

*

0.02 - 0.18

   Abstainer

279

-0.06

 

-0.18 - 0.06

0.05

 

-0.08 - 0.18

   Missing response

3963

0.07

**

0.02 - 0.12

0.10

***

0.05 - 0.15

   Light drinking

3478

0

  

0

  

   Adolescent mental distress

       

   Distressed

1361

0.82

***

0.76 - 0.88

0.37

***

0.31 - 0.43

   Not distressed

7367

0

  

0

  

Adjusted for seeing parents drunk

   Maternal alcohol

       

   Abuse

131

0.20

 

-0.01 - 0.42

0.20

 

-0.01 - 0.42

   At risk

755

0.05

 

-0.03 - 0.13

0.04

 

-0.04 - 0.12

   Abstainer

477

-0.06

 

-0.16 - 0.04

-0.11

*

-0.21 - 0.00

   Missing response

2742

0.02

 

-0.03 - 0.07

-0.02

 

-0.07 - 0.04

   Light drinking

4490

0

  

0

  

   Paternal alcohol

     

**

 

   Abuse

209

0.14

 

-0.01 - 0.29

0.07

 

-0.09 - 0.23

   At risk

781

0.05

 

-0.03 - 0.12

0.04

 

-0.04 - 0.12

   Abstainer

273

0.03

 

-0.09 - 0.16

0.15

*

0.02 - 0.28

   Missing response

3901

0.07

**

0.02 - 0.12

0.09

***

0.04 - 0.14

   Light drinking

3431

0

  

0

  

   Seen parents drunk

  

***

  

***

 

   A few times a week

111

0.71

***

0.43 - 0.98

0.71

***

0.46 - 0.97

   A few times a month

453

0.50

***

0.39 - 0.61

0.51

***

0.41 - 0.62

   A few times a year

1746

0.25

***

0.19 - 0.31

0.36

***

0.30 - 0.42

   A few times

3181

0.20

***

0.16 - 0.25

0.25

***

0.20 - 0.30

   Never

3104

0

  

0

  
  1. Controlled for demography (adolescent age and sex; parental age, education and income).
  2. Cohen's d express group differences as fractions of standard deviations.
  3. * = p < 0.05; ** = p < 0.01; *** = p < 0.001.