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Table 2 Is health associated with perceiving teenagers to be a serious local problem? Bivariate (unadjusted) and multivariate (adjusted) logistic regression

From: Is concern about young people's anti-social behaviour associated with poor health? cross-sectional evidence from residents of deprived urban neighbourhoods

   

Dependent variable: Participants who report that teenagers are a serious problem

Independent variables

Category or score direction

Unadjusted

Adjusted1

  

OR2

P3

95% CI4

OR 2

P3

95% CI4

Health

Physical health (SF-12 v.2 score)

Higher score = better

0.99

0.073

(0.99-1.00)

0.98

< 0.001

(0.97-0.99)

Mental health (SF-12 v.2 score)

Higher score = better

0.99

0.002

(0.98-1.00)

0.99

0.103

(0.98-1.00)

  1. 1 Adjusted for sex, ethnic group, household structure, age group, living with children, educational qualifications, problems paying bills. To avoid over-adjusting for health-related outcomes, two separate multivariate logistic regressions were conducted for the two SF12v2 scores
  2. 2 Odds ratio
  3. 3 P value
  4. 4 95% Confidence interval
  5. reference category in italics. Total sample n = 6008; number of observations = 5844