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

Table 3.

Hierarchical generalized linear models predicting continuation of alcohol use at wave 2 among the alcohol experienced 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) 0.71 (0.53, 0.94) 0.018 0.66 (0.47, 0.92) 0.016 0.64 (0.45, 0.90) 0.011
 Living with parents (one or none) 1.05 (0.71, 1.56) 0.806 1.02 (0.63, 1.64) 0.948 0.99 (0.61, 1.60) 0.956
 Parental education (both under college) 1.05 (0.76, 1.46) 0.761 1.01 (0.69, 1.47) 0.972 1.02 (0.70, 1.50) 0.906
 Monthly allowance (≥$NTD 500) 1.41 (1.04, 1.91) 0.026 1.24 (0.88, 1.75) 0.217 1.24 (0.88, 1.76) 0.226
 Parental drinking (one or both) 1.66 (1.13, 2.43) 0.009 1.30 (0.82, 2.06) 0.261 1.68 (0.96, 2.97) 0.081
 Elder sibling drinking (any) 1.84 (1.21, 2.79) 0.004 1.50 (0.92, 2.45) 0.104 1.55 (0.94, 2.56) 0.083
 Peer drinking (any) 1.61 (1.16, 2.24) 0.005 1.43 (0.96, 2.12) 0.079 1.30 (0.85, 2.00) 0.543
 Parental approval to drink (one or both) 1.89 (1.34, 2.67) <0.001 1.60 (1.07, 2.40) 0.022 1.58 (1.02, 2.45) 0.486
 Exposure to alcohol advertising
  Televisions (yes) 1.28 (0.79, 2.08) 0.310 1.28 (0.67, 2.44) 0.452 1.30 (0.68, 2.50) 0.432
  Other channels 1.05 (0.96, 1.16) 0.307 0.99 (0.88, 1.12) 0.895 0.98 (0.87, 1.11) 0.763



Level-2 (district) variables
 Social environment
  Economic disadvantage index 0.93 (0.68, 1.28) 0.640 0.58 (0.28, 1.23) 0.141 0.57 (0.27, 1.21) 0.070
  Violent crime rate 1.01 (0.98, 1.04) 0.556 1.04 (0.99, 1.09) 0.095 1.04 (0.99, 1.09) 0.124
 Alcohol access environment
  On-premises alcohol outlets 1.09 (0.88, 1.35) 0.432 0.66 (0.41, 1.04) 0.070 0.63 (0.40, 1.02) 0.058
  Off-premises alcohol outlets 1.04 (0.99, 1.08) 0.114 1.14 (1.05, 1.24) 0.004 1.14 (1.05, 1.24) 0.004
  Betel nut kiosks 0.95 (0.70, 1.29) 0.715 1.03 (0.70, 1.52) 0.866 1.08 (0.72, 1.64) 0.683
 Institutional resource environment
  MRT 1.06 (0.77, 1.47) 0.692 0.47 (0.24, 0.92) 0.030 0.48 (0.24, 0.94) 0.034
  Recreational resources 1.08 (0.91, 1.29) 0.365 0.85 (0.57, 1.28) 0.410 0.87 (0.58, 1.32) 0.487
  Temples 0.46 (0.17, 1.26) 0.124 0.26 (0.24, 0.92) 0.016 0.24 (0.08, 0.69) 0.012



Cross-level interactions
 Parental drinking×economic disadvantage 2.13 (1.00, 4.55) 0.052
 Parental drinking×violent crime 0.96 (0.90, 1.02) 0.175
 Peer drinking×economic disadvantage 0.81 (0.48, 1.38) 0.411
 Peer drinking×violent crime 1.00 (0.95, 1.05) 0.848
 Approval to drink×economic disadvantage 0.77 (0.45, 1.33) 0.355
 Approval to drink×violent crime 1.04 (0.99, 1.10) 0.140



Random effects
Intercept (u0j) 0.22308 0.00046 0.00036
Deviance (−2LL) 2190.41 1871.33 1902.54
Number of parameters 2 23 33

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

b Sample size: individual-level: 779; district-level: 22; c ICC for level-2 variance component=0.06.

a

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