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. 2009 Nov 24;5:1–8. doi: 10.2174/1745017900905010001

Table 2.

Socio-Familiar Variables and their Association with any Diagnosis

Frequency in the Total Sample Frequency in Children Affected by any Psychiatric Disorder OR (95% CI)

Gender
Male 50.7% 66.7% 2.1* (1.4-3.2)
Female 49.3% 33.3%

Organic disease 4.7% 14.3% 4.5 (2.3-8.6)

Attending school full-time 61.8% 73.3% 1.8 (1.1-2.8)

Learning support teacher 2.5% 13.3% 12.3 (5.4-28.0)

First-born 57.8% 54.3% 1.2 (0.8-1.7)

Presence of at least one brother/sister 69%
1 54.5% 69.5% 1.0 (0.6-1.6)
2 12.4%
3-5 2.9%

Father marital status
Married 93.4% 19.0% 4.3 (2.4-7.6)
Divorced, not present, or dead 6.6%

Mother marital status
Married 98.8% 5.7% 8.9 (2.8-28.3)
Divorced, not present, or dead 1.2%

Father’s occupation -
Employee 34.2% 49.5%
Self-employed 33.3% 32.4%
Workman 5.6% 4.8%
Teacher 4.8 5.7
Unemployed 0.6% 1.0%

Mother’s occupation -
Employee 32.5% 34.3%
Self-employed 16.2% 21.0%
Workman 5.6% 4.8%
Teacher 8.7% 5.7%
Housewife 29.8% 25.7%

Nr of components of familiar nucleus 72.4% 0.9** (0.6-1.5)
≤2 27.4%
>2 72.6%

Presence of other cohabitants 12.6% 22.9% 2.3 (1.4-3.8)
*:

the OR is calculated as male/female.

**:

the OR is calculated as ≤2/>2