Table 2 Parent monitoring through late childhood and adolescence
From: Factors associated with crack-cocaine early initiation: a Brazilian multicenter study
Did your parents / caregivers really know: | 8–11 years (n = 542) | 12–14 years (n = 526) | 15-17 years (n = 483) |  | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No | A little | Very well | P-valuea | Adjusted p-valueb | No | A little | Very well | P-valuea | Adjusted p-valueb | No | A little | Very well | P-valuea | Adjusted p-valueb | |
Who your friends were? | ||||||||||||
 N (%) | 282 (52) | 260 (48) |  |  | 355 (67.4) | 171 (32.6) |  |  | 379 (79.5) | 98 (20.5) |  |  |
 Average age (SD) | 20.9 (6.42) | 22.5 (7.44) | 0.008 | 0.392 | 20.6 (6.12) | 23.6 (7.76) | < 0.001 | 0.097 | 21.7 (7.13) | 21.0 (6.18) | 0.371 | 0.725 |
 CI 95% | 20.1–21.6 | 21.6–23.4 |  |  | 20.0–21.2 | 22.4–24.7 |  |  | 21.0–22.4 | 19.7–22.2 |  |  |
How you spent your money?1 | ||||||||||||
 N (%) | 157 (43.2) | 207 (56.8) | 0.113 |  | 309 (65.5) | 163 (34.5) |  |  | 394 (83.4) | 79 (16.6) |  | 0.423 |
 Average age (SD) | 22.4 (7.78) | 21.2 (6.39) |  | 0.768 | 20.3 (6.12) | 23.1 (7.16) | < 0.001 | 0.061 | 21.7 (7.22) | 21.1 (6.13) | 0.444 |  |
 CI 95% | 21.2–23.7 | 20.4–22.1 |  |  | 19.6–21.0 | 22.0–24.2 |  |  | 21.0–22.4 | 19.7–22.4 |  |  |
Where you used to go in your spare time? | ||||||||||||
 N (%) | 250 (46.2) | 291 (53.8) | 0.001 |  | 370 (70) | 158 (30) |  |  | 402 (83.4) | 80 (16.6) |  |  |
 Average age (SD) | 20.6 (6.38) | 22.6 (7.39) |  | 0.503 | 20.5 (6.12) | 24.2 (7.97) | < 0.001 | 0.023 | 21.9 (7.16) | 20.2 (6.08) | 0.059 | 0.856 |
 CI 95% | 19.8–21.3 | 21.8–23.5 |  |  | 19.9–21.2 | 23.0–25.5 |  |  | 21.2–22.6 | 18.9–21.6 |  |  |