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Table 3 Basic- and fully-adjusted associations between demographic, health, resettlement stressors, and family conflict variables and parental psychological distress (n = 40)

From: Resettlement, mental health, and coping: a mixed methods survey with recently resettled refugee parents in Canada

Basic-adjusted modela

 

b (SE)

p

Demographics

  
 

Age

0.017 (0.114)

0.882

 

Gender (female)b

3.287 (1.771)

0.071

 

Country of birth (Iraq or Sudan)c

2.911 (2.283)

0.211

 

Highest level of education

− .541 (0.873)

0.539

 

Marital status (widowed/divorced)d

3.156 (2.589)

0.231

 

Number of children in household

− 0.027 (0.496)

0.957

 

Recency (arrived 2018–2019)e

4.717 (1.616)

0.006

 

Employment status (employed/student)f

-1.838 (1.903)

0.341

Health status

  
 

Self-rated health (poor/fair)

4.652 (1.944)

0.022

 

Parent-rated child health (poor/fair)

2.986 (1.861)

0.118

Resettlement stressorsg

0.335 (0.120)

0.009

Family conflict

  
 

Parent-child conflict

− 0.080 (0.600)

0.894

 

Inter-adult conflict

1.960 (0.654)

0.005

Fully-adjusted model h

 

b (SE)

p

Age

− 0.058 (0.095)

0.544

Gender

0.805 (1.319)

0.546

Recency (arrived 2018–2019)

2.254 (1.343)

0.104

Self-rated health (poor/fair)

4.356 (1.478)

0.006

Resettlement stressors

0.306 (0.102)

0.005

Inter-adult conflict

2.005 (0.533)

< 0.001

  1. a Adjusted for age and gender
  2. b Reference category is male
  3. c Reference category is Syria; Iraq and Sudan were grouped together given the small n
  4. d Reference category is married
  5. e Reference category is arrived 2020–2021
  6. f Reference category is unemployed/not working/retired
  7. g Sum score of resettlement stressor ratings with missing values coded as 0, not including 4 items with > 10% missingness
  8. h Includes only variables with p-value ≤ 0.05 in basic-adjusted model and age and gender