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 4 Effects of house moves on externalizing 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	2.06	1.89 - 2.23	<0.0001	3.39	2.44 - 4.35	<0.001	3.29	2.24 - 4.33	<0.001
House moves from birth to <2 yrs
No moves	ref		0.059^§			0.28^§			0.58^§
1 move	0.24	-0.07 - 0.55		0.01	-0.31 - 0.33		-0.02	-0.34 - 0.30
≥2 moves	0.53	0.04 - 1.02		0.39	-0.10 - 0.87		0.25	-0.24 - 0.73
House moves between 2 yrs and <5 yrs
No moves	ref		0.13^§			0.40^§			0.59^§
1 move	0.32	0.01 - 0.62		0.19	-0.11 - 0.49		0.14	-0.17 - 0.44
≥2 moves	0.05	-0.39 - 0.48		-0.05	-0.47 - 0.38		-0.06	-0.49 - 0.37
House moves between 5 yrs and 9 yrs
No moves	ref		0.20^§						0.11^§
1 move	0.30	-0.03 - 0.62		0.24	-0.08 - 0.55	0.26^§	0.31	-0.01 - 0.63
≥2 moves	0.05	-0.31 - 0.41		-0.06	-0.42 - 0.30		-0.06	-0.46 - 0.34
Maternal age at birth of study child				-0.05	-0.07 - -0.02	<0.001	-0.03	-0.06 - 0.00	0.025
Study child sex female				-0.19	-0.42 - 0.05	0.12	-0.19	-0.43 - 0.05	0.12
Maternal education
HS not completed				0.58	0.23 - 0.93	0.012^§	0.46	0.06 - 0.86	0.12^§
HS not completed, TAFE or Univ. completed				0.18	-0.23 - 0.58		0.09	-0.33 - 0.52
HS completed only				0.14	-0.25 - 0.54		0.10	-0.31 - 0.50
HS completed, TAFE completed				0.39	0.00 - 0.78		0.29	-0.11 - 0.68
HS completed, Univ. completed				ref
Income
≤$31,199							0.30	-0.04 - 0.64	0.13^§
$31,200-$51,999							-0.01	-0.32 - 0.30
≥$52,000							ref
With same partner from birth to 9 yrs							-0.34	-0.64 - 0.04	0.029
Stressful events between birth and 2 yrs							-0.06	-0.31 - 0.19	0.64
Children in the household at 2 yrs
1 child							ref		0.56^§
2 children							0.08	-0.24 - 0.41
3 children							0.04	-0.36 - 0.44
≥4 children							-0.25	-0.77 - 0.27
≥1 additional child from 2 to 3.5 yrs							0.24	-0.06 - 0.54	0.12
School moves from reception to 9 yrs
No school moves							ref		0.016^§
1 school move							-0.41	-0.70 - 0.12
≥2 school moves							0.06	-0.57 - 0.69

CI = Confidence Interval, HS = High School, TAFE = Technical and Further Education College, Univ. = University, yrs = years.
^*R-square values are 0.045 (Model 1), 0.113 (Model 2) and 0.162 (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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