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Published in final edited form as: J Child Neurol. 2011 Sep 27;27(5):569–576. doi: 10.1177/0883073811420719

Table 3.

The Association Between Muscular Dystrophy and Measures of Family Impact Among Children With Special Health Care Needs in the United States: Adjusted Odds Ratios

	Financial problem	Reduce or stop employment	Spend ≥10 hours week per for care	Paid ≥$1000 for medical care in previous year
Muscular dystrophy	3.21^a	3.83^a	5.09^a	2.22^a
Race/ethnicity
Black non-Hispanic	0.93	0.9	1.1	0.46^a
Hispanic	0.96	1.12	1.36^a	0.80^a
Other	1.17^a	0.99	1.05	0.89
Female	0.89^a	0.95	0.90^a	1.08
Age group
6 to 11	1.03	0.82^a	0.80^a	1.07
12 to 17	1.13^a	0.72^a	0.70^a	1.30^a
2 parent, biological or adoptive	0.81^a	0.93	1	1.06
Family income ≥100% of federal poverty level	0.91	0.89	0.70^a	1.73^a
Household education above high school	1	1.07	0.75^a	1.48^a
Language other than-English spoken at home	1.37	1.46^a	1.01	1.43^a
Type of insurance
Public	1.38^a	2.12^a	2.12^a	0.27^a
Both private and public	1.93^a	2.84^a	2.77^a	0.75^a
Insured (type unknown)	2.05^a	1.23	1.86^a	1.61^a
Uninsured	5.23^a	2.09^a	1.86^a	1.90^a

Note: The baseline is children with special health care needs without muscular dystrophy, being non-Hispanic white, male, aged 0 to 5 years, single parent household, household income below federal poverty level, household education is high school or below, English spoken at home, and private insurance.

P < .05.