Table 5.
Mental health problems and health behaviour in the10 th grade as predictors of non-completion of upper secondary school in girls (n = 4751)
| |
Crude |
Model 1
a
|
Model 2
b
|
Model 3
c
|
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | |||||
|
SDQ externalising (per 2 points) |
1.59 |
1.51 |
1.66* |
1.48 |
1.41 |
1.56* |
1.44 |
1.36 |
1.52* |
1.31 |
1.24 |
1.39* |
|
SDQ internalising (per 2 points) |
1.29 |
1.24 |
1.35* |
1.21 |
1.16 |
1.27* |
1.08 |
1.03 |
1.14* |
1.09 |
1.04 |
1.15* |
|
Health behaviour |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Smoking |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| No |
ref. |
|
* |
|
|
|
|
|
|
ref. |
|
* |
| Sometimes |
1.46 |
1.21 |
1.77 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1.30 |
1.05 |
1.62 |
| Yes, every day |
4.75 |
4.01 |
5.62 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2.77 |
2.23 |
3.45 |
| Alcohol last year |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Never |
ref. |
|
* |
|
|
|
|
|
|
ref. |
|
|
| A few times last year |
0.85 |
0.70 |
1.04 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
0.83 |
0.66 |
1.05 |
| 1–3 times a month |
1.36 |
1.13 |
1.64 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
0.88 |
0.69 |
1.13 |
| Once a week or more |
1.92 |
1.53 |
2.41 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
0.93 |
0.68 |
1.26 |
| Physical activity |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 0 hours per week |
ref. |
|
* |
|
|
|
|
|
|
ref. |
|
* |
| 1–2 hours per week |
0.77 |
0.63 |
0.95 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1.12 |
0.89 |
1.43 |
| 3–4 hours per week |
0.49 |
0.39 |
0.61 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
0.85 |
0.66 |
1.10 |
| 5–7 hours per week |
0.34 |
0.27 |
0.44 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
0.65 |
0.49 |
0.86 |
| 8 hours or more per week | 0.41 | 0.31 | 0.54 | 0.78 | 0.57 | 1.07 | ||||||
aModel 1: SDQ externalising and SDQ internalising separately, adjusted for ethnic background, county of residence, parents’ education, income and marital status.
bModel 2: SDQ externalising and SDQ internalising adjusted for each other, and for ethnic background, county of residence, parents’ education, income and marital status.
cModel 3: Like model 2, in addition adjusted for health behaviours.
*p ≤ 0.001.