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

Table 3 Is perceiving teenagers to be a serious local problem associated with mental and physical health? Bivariate (unadjusted) and multivariate (adjusted) regression

		Unadjusted			Adjusted¹
Dependent variable	Independent variable	Coeff²	P³	95% CI⁴	Coeff²	P³	95% CI⁴
Physical health (SF-12 v.2) (higher = better)	Teenager problems⁵	-0.59	0.072	(-1.24 0.05)	-1.69	0.008	(-2.87 -0.52)
Mental health (SF-12 v.2) (higher = better)	Teenager problems⁵	-0.93	0.002	(-1.53 -0.33)	-0.90	0.133	(-2.10 0.31)

¹ Adjusted for sex, ethnic group, household structure, age group, living with children, educational qualifications, and problems paying bills
² Coefficients
³ P value
⁴ 95% Confidence interval
⁵ Reporting teenagers hanging around to be a serious neighbourhood problem (reference category = not a serious neighbourhood problem)
Total sample n = 6008; number of observations = 5844

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