The effects of house moves during early childhood on child mental health at age 9 years

Rumbold, Alice R; Giles, Lynne C; Whitrow, Melissa J; Steele, Emily J; Davies, Christopher E; Davies, Michael J; Moore, Vivienne M

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-583

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Effects of house moves on internalizing behaviour scores at age 9 years

From: The effects of house moves during early childhood on child mental health at age 9 years

	Model 1^*			Model 2^*†			Model 3^*‡
	β	95% CI	P value	β	95% CI	P value	β	95% CI	P value
Intercept	2.17	2.02 - 2.32	<0.0001	2.84	1.98 - 3.71	<0.0001	2.45	1.46 - 3.41	<0.0001
House moves from birth to <2 yrs
No moves	ref		0.0038^§			0.0052^§			0.0061^§
1 move	0.03	-0.25 - 0.31		-0.10	-0.39 - 0.20		-0.13	-0.42 - 0.16
≥2 moves	0.74	0.31 - 1.18		0.67	0.23 - 1.11		0.65	0.20 - 1.10
House moves between 2 yrs and <5 yrs
No moves	ref		0.48^§			0.37^§			0.27^§
1 move	-0.01	-0.28 - 0.27		-0.06	-0.34 - 0.22		-0.04	-0.32 - 0.23
≥2 moves	-0.23	-0.62 - 0.15		-0.28	-0.67 - 0.11		-0.33	-0.72 - 0.07
House moves between 5 yrs and 9 yrs
No moves	ref		0.63^§			0.65^§			0.47^§
1 move	0.14	-0.15 - 0.43		0.12	-0.17 - 0.41		0.19	-0.11 - 0.48
≥2 moves	0.04	-0.28 - 0.36		-0.03	-0.36 - 0.29		0.08	-0.29 - 0.45
Maternal age at birth of study child				-0.03	-0.05 - 0.00	0.022	-0.02	-0.04 - 0.01	0.20
Study child sex female				0.15	-0.07 - 0.37	0.17	0.15	-0.07 - 0.38	0.17
Maternal education
HS not completed				0.26	-0.06 - 0.58	0.34^§	0.37	0.00 - 0.73	0.23^§
HS not completed, TAFE or Univ. completed				0.18	-0.19 - 0.55		0.24	-0.15 - 0.63
HS completed only				0.15	-0.21 - 0.51		0.18	-0.19 - 0.56
HS completed, TAFE completed				0.36	0.01 - 0.72		0.39	0.03 - 0.75
HS completed, Univ. completed				ref			ref
Income
≤$31,199							0.11	-0.20 - 0.43	0.64^§
$31,200-$51,999							-0.03	-0.32 - 0.26
≥$52,000							ref
With same partner from birth to 9 yrs							0.06	-0.23 - 0.34	0.70
Stressful events between birth and 2 yrs							0.14	-0.09 - 0.37	0.23
Children in the household at 2 yrs
1 child							ref		0.17^§
2 children							-0.10	-0.40 - 0.20
3 children							-0.29	-0.66 - 0.09
≥4 children							-0.47	-0.95 - 0.00
≥1 additional child from 2 to 3.5 yrs							0.17	-0.11 - 0.45	0.23
School moves from reception to 9 yrs
No school moves							ref		0.32^§
1 school move							-0.20	-0.47 - 0.06
≥2 school moves							-0.02	-0.60 - 0.56

CI = Confidence Interval, HS = High School, TAFE = Technical and Further Education College, Univ. = University, yrs = years.
^*R-square values are 0.032 (Model 1), 0.062 (Model 2) and 0.091 (Model 3).
^†Includes adjustment for maternal age, child sex and maternal education.
^‡Includes adjustment for maternal age, child sex, maternal education, household income, parental relationship status, household composition, stressful events between birth and 2 years, and change in school between reception and 9 years.
^§P values reflect an overall test for the inclusion of the set of variables.

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