Association between substance use and psychosocial characteristics among adolescents of the Seychelles

BMC Pediatrics

Table 4 Stepwise multivariate association between risk behaviors and psychosocial characteristics in boys and in girls

	Boys						Girls
	Smoking		Alcohol use		Cannabis use		Smoking		Alcohol use		Cannabis use
Variable	OR	P	OR	P	OR	P	OR	P	OR	P	OR	P
Age (year)	1.2	0.030	1.2	0.003	1.2	ns	1.4	0.003	1.4	0.000	0.8	ns
Felt sad or hopeless ≥ 2 weeks in a row in past 12 months	-		-		-		-		1.6	0.023	-
Often felt lonely in past 12 months	-		-		-		-		-		-
Was so worried about something that could not sleep at night in past 12 months	-		-		3.6	0.001	-		-		-
Seriously considered attempting suicide in past 12 months	3.0	0.000	-		2.7	0.002	2.5	0.006	1.8	0.051	-
Parents rarely/never understand problems	-		-		-		-		-		-
Parents rarely/never check homework	-		-		-		-		2.3	0.000	-
Parents rarely/never know what child is doing	1.8	0.016	1.5	0.046	1.9	0.020	-		-		-
Pocket money ≥ 25 rupees per day	1.8	0.025	-		-		2.6	0.006	-		-
School absence without permission ≥ 1 day in past 30 days	2.9	0.000	2.3	0.000	2.5	0.001	6.1	0.000	2.6	0.000	33.2	0.000
Intraclass correlation	0.00		0.00		0.00		0.00		0.08		0.26
Sample size	479		429		515		607		551		624

*The initial model for each risk behavior included all explanatory variables but only associations that remained significant in multivariate analysis were retained in the final model, except for age which was retained in all models even when not statistically significant.

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