Table 5. Regression analysis for exposure to childhood adversities and mental health symptoms among children from ultra-poor families in Burkina Faso (N = 360).

VARIABLES	Depressiona	Traumab	Self-esteemc
Latent Classes	Estimate (SE)
Class 1: Non-working poor	2.31	1.87	-0.52
	(1.22)	(1.38)	(0.4)
Class 2: Non-extreme poor (reference group)	ref	ref	ref
Class 3: Abused and exploited	7.18***	4.73***	0.23
	(1.25)	(1.41)	(0.41)
Class 4: Healthy / non-abused	-2.13	-3.90*	0.92*
	(1.35)	(1.52)	(0.45)
Class 5: External laborer	3.82**	4.25**	-1.45**
	(1.46)	(1.65)	(0.48)
Covariates
Gender (girl child)	0.26	-0.35	-0.29
	(0.87)	(0.98)	(0.29)
Child’s age (adolescents, 13–15 years of age)	0.13	0.19	0.1
	(0.29)	(0.33)	(0.09)
Family structure (polygamous family)	-0.14	2.44*	0.03
	(0.89)	(1.01)	(0.29)
Constant	17.50***	3.4	18.58***
	(1.64)	(1.83)	(0.52)
Observations	360	360	360
Number of groups	12	12	12

Notes

^aCenter for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC)

^bChildren’s Revised Impact of Events Scale (CRIES-8)

^cRosenberg Self-Esteem Scale.—Estimates are unstandardized regression coefficients; standard errors of the regression coefficients are in parentheses.

*** p<0.001

** p<0.01

* p<0.05