Skip to main content

View full-text article in PMC

. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: Child Youth Serv Rev. 2014 Aug 1;43:131–137. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.05.011

Table 5.

Logistic Regression Results: Effects of losing a mother on the child’s life and feelings: OR (95% CI)

Variable	Reported changes in the child’s life		Effects on the child’s feelings

	Model 7: Started school late	Model 8: Take care of a parent	Model 9: Feeling happy	Model 10: Feeling scared
Constant	.545^*	.947	.159^***	1.52
Gender (boys)	1.69(1.2, 2.4)^**	1.48(1.1, 2.2)^**	.616(.38, .1.0)^*	1.71(1.2, 2.5)^**
Age (below 13yrs)	1.39(.99, 1.9)	1.35(.95, 1.9)	.999(.61, 1.6)	1.49(1.0, 2.2)^*
Double orphan	.917(.66, 1.3)	.738(.53, 1.0)	1.35(.84, 2.2)	.737(.51, 1.1)
No. of adults in the HH	.931(.83, 1.0)	.933(.83, 1.0)	1.03(.88, 1.2)	1.02(.91, 1.2)
No. of children in the HH	1.14(.98, 1.3)	1.03(.89, 1.2)	.973(.80, 1.2)	.961(.83, 1.1)

χ² (df)	14.9(5)^**	14.2(5)^**	6.10(5)	14.5(5)^**

^*

p<.05;

^**

p<.01;

^***

p<.001