Table 1.

Comparisons of sociodemographic characteristics between participants who reported childhood learning problems or disabilities (LD-Yes; n=133) and those who did not (LD-No; n=364)†

Variable	Total sample	LD-No	LD-Yes	p Value
	N (%)	N (%)	N (%)
Male gender	359 (73)	259 (72)	100 (76)	0.375
Age at enrolment				0.001*
19–25 years	36 (7)	25 (7)	11 (8)
25–44 years	281 (57)	190 (52)	91 (68)
Over 44 years	180 (36)	149 (41)	31 (23)
Ethnicity				0.469
Aboriginal	77 (15)	52 (14)	25 (19)
Caucasian	280 (56)	208 (57)	72 (54)
Other	140 (28)	104 (29)	36 (27)
Educational attainment (≤grade 8)	76 (15)	44 (12)	32 (25)	<0.001*
Single marital status	343 (70)	250 (69)	93 (70)	0.797
Language spoken at home during childhood (English)	392 (79)	282 (77)	110 (83)	0.206
Psychiatric hospitalisation (past 5 years) longer than 6 months	57 (12)	43 (12)	14 (11)	0.686
Psychiatric hospitalisation (past 5 years) 2 or more times	253 (53)	189 (54)	64 (50)	0.542
Employment history (at least 1 year of continuous work)	323 (65)	243 (67)	80 (60)	0.138
Jail (past 6 months)	68 (14)	46 (13)	22 (17)	0.262
Duration of homelessness
Total lifetime (>3 years)	234 (48)	155 (43)	79 (61)	<0.001*
Longest single period (>1 year)	245 (50)	174 (48)	71 (55)	0.143
Age of first homelessness (<25 years)	214 (44)	143 (39)	71 (56)	0.001*
Overall health (poor or fair)	235 (47)	161 (44)	74 (56)	0.026**
MCAS total score (<56)‡	244 (49)	177 (49)	67 (50)	0.730

*p≤0.001

**p≤0.05.

†Each multivariable model was controlled for age (continuous measure), age of first homelessness (continuous measure), gender, ethnicity (Aboriginals, Caucasian, other), marital status (Single vs other) and language spoken in childhood home (English vs other).

‡Dichotomised based on median value.

MCAS, Multnomah Community Ability Scale.