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Table 6 Poly substance use amongst AES and MES pupils

From: Poly-substance use and sexual risk behaviours: a cross-sectional comparison of adolescents in mainstream and alternative education settings

 

Poly substance usea

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Model 4

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

School setting

 MES

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 AES

3.69 (2.69, 5.06)

3.32 (2.36, .68)

2.46 (1.71, 3.52)

1.73 (1.15, 2.60)

Age

 Older than 15.5 years

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Younger than 15.5 years

1.05 (0.88, 1.26)

1.03 (0.85, 1.23)

1.02 (0.85, 1.24)

1.0 (0.80, 1.21)

Sex

 Male

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Female

0.83 (0.70, 1.00)

0.84 (0.69, 1.01)

0.89 (0.73, 1.07)

0.69 (0.56, 0.86)

Family composition

 Lives with both biological parents

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Lives in single parent household

1.83 (1.48, 2.27)

1.70 (1.36, 2.12)

1.58 (1.26, 1.98)

1.37 (1.07, 1.76)

 Lives in a reconstituted/step family

2.07 (1.55, 2.77)

1.82 (1.35, 2.46)

1.72 (1.27, 2.34)

1.41 (1.00, 1.97)

 Lives in residential or foster care

3.23 (2.01, 5.17)

3.09 (1.90, 5.05)

2.60 (1.57, 4.28)

2.13 (1.23, 3.71)

Paternal employment status

 Full time employment

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

  

 Part time employment

0.80 (0.50, 1.28)

0.71 (0.44, 1.16)

0.65 (0.40, 1.07)

0.6 (0.36, 1.27)

 Unemployed

0.95 (0.68, 1.33)

1.00 (0.71, 1.40)

0.93 (0.66, 1.32)

0.9 (0.60, 1.29)

Maternal employment status

 Full time employment

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Part time employment

0.95 (0.76, 1.20)

0.98 (0.77, 1.24)

1.03 (0.81, 1.31)

1.06 (0.81, 1.38)

 Unemployed

0.95 (0.73, 1.24)

0.98 (0.75, 1.29)

0.98 (0.75, 1.30)

1.03 (0.76, 1.38)

Frequency of parent-child arguments

 At least once a week

   

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Less than once a week

   

0.45 (0.38, 0.58)

0.47 (0.35, 0.65)

0.58 (0.46, 0.72)

Parent-child connectedness

 High levels of reported connectedness

   

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Low levels of reported connectedness

   

1.15 (0.95, 1.40)

1.12 (0.92, 1.36)

1.20 (0.97, 1.49)

Family time

 Frequently eats meals and go places as a family

   

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Infrequently eats meals and go places as a family

   

1.86 (1.53, 2.26)

1.79 (1.46, 2.18)

1.42 (1.15, 1.77)

Spending money

 £24 or less per week

   

1.00

1.00

1.00

 £25 or more per week

   

1.52 (1.24, 1.87)

1.41 (1.14, 1.74)

1.29 (1.02, 1.63)

Parental monitoring

 High levels of parental monitoring

   

1.00

1.00

1.00

 Low levels of parental monitoring

   

1.49 (1.23, 1.80)

1.42 (1.17, 1.73)

1.50 (1.18, 1.80)

Intended school leaving age

Remain at school beyond legal leaving age

      

1.00

1.00

Leave school as soon as legally possible

      

2.56 (2.06, 3.18)

1.52 (1.19, 1.94)

Expectations of employment, education and training

 Will be in education, employment or training

      

1.00

1.00

 Will not be in education, employment or training

      

0.73 (0.41, 1.31)

0.73 (0.39, 1.36)

Expectations of parenthood

 Will be a parent

      

1.00

1.00

 Will not be a parent

      

0.91 (0.64, 1.28)

1.24 (0.85, 1.80)

Peer behaviours

 Less than half of peers have left school

       

1.00

 More than half of peers have left school

       

1.14 (0.80, 1.62)

 Less than half of peers smoke tobacco

       

1.00

 More than half of peers smoke tobacco

       

5.74 (4.52, 7.31)

 Less than half of peers have had sex

       

1.00

More than half of peers have had sex

       

2.46 (1.96, 3.10)

  1. aMissing/unknown categories had no associations with PSU, pre-consent age sexual activity or protected against pregnancy and STIs in all stages of analysis, so are omitted from this table
  2. Results significant at p<0.05 are in bold