Paternal psychosocial work conditions and mental health outcomes: A case-control study

Maggi, Stefania; Ostry, Aleck; Tansey, James; Dunn, James; Hershler, Ruth; Chen, Lisa; Hertzman, Clyde

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-104

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Results of the multivariate analysis among the children and early adolescents' cohort

From: Paternal psychosocial work conditions and mental health outcomes: A case-control study

Predictor	Odds Ratio	SE	z	P > \|z\|	95% CI
Neurotic Disorders
Duration of Employment	0.995	0.047	-0.11	0.912	0.907–1.09
Control	0.948	0.067	-0.75	0.451	0.826–1.09
Psychological Demand	1.05	0.109	0.46	0.644	0.856–1.29
Physical Demand	1.62	0.606	1.29	0.196	0.779–3.37
Social Support	1.06	0.278	0.20	0.839	0.629–1.77
Noise	0.899	0.363	-0.26	0.794	0.408–1.99
Trades Worker	4.31	4.80	1.31	0.189	0.486–38.2
Skilled Worker	3.79	4.19	1.21	0.228	0.435–33.1
Unskilled Worker	4.03	4.43	1.27	0.204	0.468–34.8
Marital Status	1.05	0.081	0.71	0.479	0.908–1.23
Chinese	0.459	0.517	-0.69	0.489	0.051–4.17
Sikh	0.193	0.093	-3.42	0.001*	0.075-.495
Paternal Alcoholism	0.308	0.365	-0.99	0.320	0.030–3.13
Paternal Mental Health	3.08	0.920	3.77	0.000*	1.72–5.53
Paternal Suicidal Behaviours	0.590	0.597	-0.52	0.602	0.081–4.28
Acute Reaction to Stress
Duration of Employment	1.04	0.079	0.46	0.646	0.892–1.20
Control	0.955	0.122	-0.36	0.721	0.744–1.23
Psychological Demand	0.963	0.165	-0.22	0.827	0.688–1.35
Physical Demand	0.698	0.420	-0.60	0.550	0.214–2.27
Social Support	0.620	0.269	-1.10	0.271	0.265–1.45
Noise	1.26	0.865	0.34	0.735	0.329–4.84
Trades Worker	0.747	0.609	-0.36	0.721	0.151–3.69
Skilled Worker	0.436	0.368	-0.98	0.325	0.083–2.28
Unskilled Worker	1.20	0.964	0.23	0.818	0.250–5.79
Marital Status	1.06	0.109	0.59	0.555	0.869–1.30
Chinese	3.93e-16	2.33e-8	-0.00	1.00	0
Sikh	0.188	0.154	-2.04	0.041*	0.038-.935
Paternal Alcoholism	0.504	0.333	-1.04	0.299	0.138–1.84
Paternal Mental Health	1.60	0.679	1.10	0.271	0.694–3.68
Paternal Suicidal Behaviours	1.53e-15	6.32e-8	-0.00	1.00	0
Adjustment Reaction
Duration of Employment	0.960	0.048	-0.80	0.421	0.869–1.06
Control	0.955	0.066	-0.65	0.515	0.834–1.09
Psychological Demand	0.838	0.100	-1.47	0.140	0.663–1.05
Physical Demand	1.28	0.520	0.62	0.536	0.580–2.84
Social Support	0.820	0.215	-0.75	0.452	0.489–1.37
Noise	0.706	0.262	-0.94	0.349	0.340–1.46
Trades Worker	0.755	0.614	-0.35	0.730	0.153–3.71
Skilled Worker	0.821	0.694	-0.23	0.816	0.156–4.30
Unskilled Worker	0.909	0.743	-0.12	0.908	0.183–4.51
Marital Status	1.00	0.072	0.08	0.934	0.873–1.15
Chinese	0.514	0.570	-0.60	0.549	0.058–4.52
Sikh	0.154	0.077	-3.71	0.000*	0.057-.414
Paternal Alcoholism	0.873	0.700	-0.17	0.866	0.181–4.20
Paternal Mental Health	2.04	0.568	2.57	0.010*	1.18–3.52
Paternal Suicidal Behaviours	0.874	1.19	-0.10	0.922	0.060–12.6
Depression
Duration of Employment	0.991	0.037	-0.23	0.821	0.921–1.07
Control	0.934	0.050	-1.25	0.211	0.841–1.03
Psychological Demand	0.949	0.076	-0.64	0.522	0.811–1.11
Physical Demand	0.750	0.204	-1.05	0.293	0.440–1.28
Social Support	0.787	0.153	-1.22	0.222	0.537–1.15
Noise	0.685	0.200	-1.29	0.197	0.386–1.21
Trades Worker	0.672	0.359	-0.74	0.458	0.236–1.91
Skilled Worker	0.482	0.264	-1.33	0.184	0.164–1.41
Unskilled Worker	0.480	0.262	-1.34	0.179	0.165–1.39
Marital Status	1.00	0.077	0.07	0.943	0.865–1.16
Chinese	0.565	0.455	-0.71	0.479	0.116–2.74
Sikh	0.184	0.067	-4.60	0.000*	0.090-.379
Paternal Alcoholism	1.08	0.746	0.12	0.904	0.282–4.17
Paternal Mental Health	2.17	0.484	3.49	0.000*	1.40–3.36
Paternal Suicidal Behaviours	1.12	1.14	0.12	0.907	0.154–8.21

*p < .05

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