Table 2.
Associations between scores on the holistic measure to describe family systems and physical, social and emotional health outcomes in young people, 2014 Canadian Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study.
| Health outcome |
Percentage with health outcome by quintile of holistic family systems measure |
Relative riska (Q5 vs. Q1) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 (lowest) |
Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 (highest) |
RR | (95% CI) | |
| Positive health outcomes | |||||||
| Health behaviours | |||||||
| Daily physical activity | 14.5 | 16.6 | 19.9 | 24.3 | 34.4 | 1.87 | (1.68–2.09) |
| Overt risk avoidance | 21.7 | 31.1 | 37.4 | 43.1 | 55.1 | 2.36 | (2.10–2.66) |
| Social | |||||||
| High peer support | 14.2 | 15.2 | 19.4 | 26.9 | 49.3 | 3.44 | (3.04–3.89) |
| High student support at school | 9.7 | 14.9 | 20.4 | 28.1 | 46.6 | 4.02 | (3.32–4.86) |
| Emotional | |||||||
| High life satisfaction | 6.8 | 15.5 | 23.6 | 36.3 | 59.5 | 9.50 | (7.97–11.3) |
| Infrequent psychosomatic symptoms | 7.5 | 14.9 | 18.3 | 24.6 | 35.0 | 3.65 | (3.10–4.31) |
| Negative health outcomes | |||||||
| Health behaviours | |||||||
| Physical inactivity (less than daily) | 85.5 | 83.4 | 80.1 | 75.7 | 65.6 | 0.82 | (0.78–0.85) |
| Overt risk engagement | 48.2 | 34.0 | 28.6 | 23.7 | 15.3 | 0.44 | (0.38–0.50) |
| Social | |||||||
| Low peer support | 36.4 | 25.9 | 19.2 | 13.9 | 7.5 | 0.21 | (0.17–0.25) |
| Low student support at school | 33.6 | 15.9 | 11.0 | 9.2 | 6.0 | 0.19 | (0.15–0.24) |
| Emotional | |||||||
| Low life satisfaction | 26.8 | 8.2 | 4.0 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.03 | (0.02–0.05) |
| Frequent psychosomatic symptoms | 42.7 | 22.7 | 16.0 | 11.1 | 5.7 | 0.18 | (0.15–0.22) |
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Relative risk estimates have been weighted and adjusted for age, sex, and clustering by school.