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Table 4 Characteristics associated with response to questionnaire (N = 1058 total)

From: Determinants of response to a parent questionnaire about development and behaviour in 3 year olds: European multicentre study of congenital toxoplasmosis

Characteristic

Number responding (%)

Odds ratio for response4 (95% confidence interval)

Final model: Adjusted odds ratio5 (95% CI)

All centers

714 (67.5)

  

Center Variables

   

Lyon (reference)

134 (72.8)

reference

 

Paris

91 (50.0)

0.37 (0.24, 0.57)

 

Grenoble

8 (23.5)

0.11 (0.05, 0.27)

 

Marseille

69 (75.8)

1.16 (0.65, 2.06)

 

Nice

33 (75.0)

1.12 (0.53, 2.38)

 

Toulouse

44 (60.3)

0.56 (0.31, 0.99)

 

Copenhagen

9 (64.3)

0.67 (0.21, 2.1)

 

Vienna

134 (71.7)

0.97 (0.61, 1.54)

 

Stockholm

8 (50.0)

0.37 (0.13, 1.05)

 

Naples

50 (94.3)

6.22 (1.85, 20.84)

 

Poznan

134 (74.4)

1.09 (0.68, 1.73)

 

Total score for organisational attributes 3

9 (6,10)

1.36 (1.27, 1.45)

1.15 (1.09, 1.23)

Infection status 1

   

CT+

178 (80%)

2.95 (2.01, 4.31)

4.96 (3.58, 6.88)

CT-

527 (64%)

  

Maternal age 1,2,3 (mean years, 95% CI)

582 (67%) 28.4 (27.6, 29.2)

1.03 (0.99, 1.07)

1.02 (0.99, 1.05)

Parity 1,2,3 (mean, 95% CI)

503 (67%) 0.9 (0.8, 1.0)

1.05 (0.90, 1.23)

 

Gestational age at birth 1,2,3 (mean weeks, 95% CI)

530 (68%) 39.0 (38.8, 39.1)

1.00 (0.92, 1.09)

 

Child's gender 1,2

   

Male

379 (68%)

Reference

 

Female

316 (68%)

0.94 (0.71, 1.25)

 

Prenatal treatment 1,2

   

Any prescribed

532 (67%)

1.85 (0.98, 3.49)

 

None

62 (66%)

  

Neurological abnormality and/or intracranial lesions 1,2

   

Yes

25 (83.3)

2.69 (0.56, 13.00)

 

No

569 (66.3)

  
  1. 1 Excludes 14 infected children from Denmark (9 responded), as no uninfected controls available.
  2. 2 Excludes 156 children in Poznan (134 responded), as uninfected control group selected from the general population had no information on these variables.
  3. 3 Odds ratio per unit increase in characteristic
  4. 4 Adjusted for congenital infection status and center
  5. 5 Adjusted for all factors shown. Goodness of fit statistic was close to 1 (1.0063)