TABLE 3.

Multinomial Regression Results of Family Characteristics Associated with the Professional from whom Parents were Most Likely to Seek Advice Regarding Child Discipline (N=495)

Pediatricians (reference)		Religious Leaders		Mental Health Professionals		Other Professionals	X2 (df)
	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Parent Used Corporal Punishment							25.4 (6) ***
Never (reference)	1.00		1.00		1.00
Less than once per month or more than 6 months ago	3.66	1.62–8.27**	2.29	1.11–4.71*	0.49	0.02–1.53
Once per month or more in the past 6 months	3.76	1.74–8.15***	0.80	0.32–2.03	1.53	0.67–3.50
Parent Religious Characteristics
Religion							17.2 (9) *
Catholic (reference)	1.00		1.00
Christian/non-Catholic	2.49	1.24–4.96**	2.02	1.08–3.77*	1.02	0.50–2.07
Other religion	3.10	0.69–13.9	2.88	0.96–8.62	2.23	0.79–6.25
Importance religious or spiritual beliefs in daily life, %							14.5(6) *
Very importanta	4.31	1.62–11.5**	1.31	0.68–2.51	0.59	0.29–1.18
Somewhat important or less so (reference)	1.00		1.00		1.00		8.7(3) *
Child Age	1.11	1.03–1.19**	1.06	0.99–1.13	1.01	0.93–1.09

Note: OR = Odds Ratio; CI = Confidence Interval. We controlled for all variables described in Table 2; however, only the four variables with omnibus tests of statistical significance at p<=0.05 are included in this Table.

^aThe other 4 response categories were collapsed into “Somewhat important or less so” due to the distribution of the variable as follows: Somewhat important (20.2%), Neither important nor unimportant (1.6%), Somewhat unimportant (2.8%), and Very unimportant (4.0%).

^*p<0.05.

^**p<0.01.

^***p<0.001.