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. 2016 Apr 25;2:249–258. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.03.003

Table 2.

Hierarchical generalized linear models predicting initiation of alcohol use at wave 2 among the alcohol naïve adolescents at baseline in Taipei, Taiwan between 2010 and 2012.

Variables Bivariate
Model 0 Model 1
Model 2a
cOR (95% CI) P-value aOR (95% CI) aOR (95% CI) P-value aOR (95% CI) P-value
Fixed effects
Level-1 (individual) variables
 Gender (boys) 0.96 (0.70, 1.33) 0.810 0.98 (0.68, 1.42) 0.928 0.98 (0.67, 1.43) 0.912
 Living with parents (one or none) 1.57 (0.96, 2.57) 0.074 1.35 (0.77, 2.37) 0.295 1.44 (0.82, 2.55) 0.209
 Parental education (both under college) 1.33 (0.94, 1.90) 0.107 1.32 (0.88, 1.97) 0.177 1.38 (0.91, 2.08) 0.129
 Monthly allowance (≥ $NTD 500) 1.55 (1.12, 2.15) 0.008 1.69 (1.18, 2.44) 0.004 1.74 (1.20, 2.51) 0.003
 Parental drinking (one or both) 1.05 (0.75, 1.48) 0.760 0.89 (0.61, 1.32) 0.570 0.96 (0.62, 1.48) 0.840
 Elder sibling drinking (any) 1.53 (0.82, 2.85) 0.180 1.49 (0.72, 3.11) 0.284 1.44 (0.67, 3.09) 0.355
 Peer drinking (any) 1.62 (0.97, 2.70) 0.065 1.77 (0.99, 3.17) 0.054 1.78 (0.96, 3.30) 0.067
 Parental approval to drink (one or both) 1.19 (0.62, 2.30) 0.600 1.26 (0.59, 2.66) 0.552 1.17 (0.43, 3.20) 0.752
 Exposure to alcohol advertising
  Televisions (yes) 2.81 (1.41, 5.62) 0.003 2.35 (1.05, 5.25) 0.038 2.39 (1.06, 5.38) 0.036
  Other channels 1.11 (1.00, 1.23) 0.060 1.08 (0.95, 1.23) 0.242 1.08 (0.95, 1.23) 0.240



Level-2 (district) variables
 Social environment
  Economic disadvantage index 0.87 (0.67, 1.14) 0.296 0.38 (0.15, 0.98) 0.046 0.37 (0.14, 0.97) 0.044
  Violent crime rate 1.00 (0.98, 1.03) 0.921 1.05 (0.99, 1.11) 0.086 1.05 (0.99, 1.11) 0.095
 Alcohol access environment
  On-premises alcohol outlets 1.04 (0.88, 1.22) 0.660 0.89 (0.55, 1.45) 0.626 0.88 (0.53, 1.46) 0.594
  Off-premises alcohol outlets 1.01 (0.97, 1.05) 0.658 1.04 (0.95, 1.14) 0.357 1.05 (0.95, 1.15) 0.312
  Betel nut kiosks 1.05 (0.82, 1.35) 0.689 1.62 (1.04, 2.52) 0.036 1.68 (1.05, 2.67) 0.033
 Institutional resource environment
  MRT 1.30 (1.00, 1.70) 0.052 0.81 (0.41, 1.62) 0.526 0.78 (0.39, 1.57) 0.452
  Recreational resources 1.01 (0.88, 1.16) 0.850 0.74 (0.48, 1.13) 0.151 0.75 (0.48, 1.16) 0.171
  Temples 0.40 (0.17, 0.95) 0.038 0.30 (0.09, 1.02) 0.052 0.31 (0.09, 1.08) 0.063



Cross-level interactions
 Parental drinking×economic disadvantage 0.96 (0.56, 1.63) 0.869
 Parental drinking×violent crime 1.05 (1.00, 1.11) 0.037
 Peer drinking×economic disadvantage 1.40 (0.63, 3.10) 0.410
 Peer drinking×violent crime 0.95 (0.87, 1.03) 0.185
 Approval to drink×economic disadvantage 0.79 (0.23, 2.67) 0.698
 Approval to drink×violent crime 1.02 (0.93, 1.12) 0.648



Random effects
Intercept (u0j) 0.05505 0.00012 0.00011
Deviance (−2LL) 2861.84 2460.02 2486.26
Number of parameters 2 23 33

Statistically significant effects are printed in boldface (P<0.05).

b Sample size: individual-level: 1016; district-level: 22; c ICC for level-2 variance component=0.02.

a

The grand-mean centering was performed for both individual-level and district-level variables to adjust for multicollinearity.