Table 2.

Multivariate analyses of the association between dropping out of school and psychiatric or neurodevelopmental diagnoses or out-of-home care by child protection in the 1987 and 1997 cohorts

	1987	1997
Diagnostic group	OR (95% CI), p value	OR (95% CI), p value
Any psychiatric or neurodevelopmental disorder	2.2 (1.7–2.8), p < 0.001	3.7 (2.9–4.5), p < 0.001
Depressive disorders	2.3 (1.5–3.5), p < 0.001	1.3 (0.7–2.2), p = 0.38
Anxiety disorders	2.1 (1.3–3.2), p = 0.001	2.0 (1.3–3.1), p = 0.01
Learning disabilites	2.0 (1.2–3.1), p = 0.005	6.3 (4.6–8.4), p < 0.001
Autism spectrum disorder	13.5 (7.0–24.4), p < 0.001	12.4 (8.4–17.8), p < 0.001
Conduct disorder	2.8 (1.6–4.5), p < 0.001	2.2 (1.1–3.9), p = 0.01
Out-of-home-care by child protection	2.2 (1.3–3.5), p = 0.001	2.0 (1.1–3.3), p = 0.02

OR odds ratio; CI confidence interval

The multivariate analysis included sex and parental sociodemographic characteristics