Table 2.
Associations of adolescent weekly smoking, weekly drinking, recent cannabis use, lifetime drugs use and early sexual intercourse with religious attendance, spirituality (standardized to z-scores), their joint association and their interaction, adjusted for age, gender and socio-economic status (FAS) (odds ratios, OR, and 95% confidence intervals, CI) (Czech Republic, 2014)
Weekly smoking | Weekly drinking | Recent cannabis use (15 years old) | Lifetime drugs use (15 years old) | Early sexual intercourse (15 years old) | ||||||
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Crude | Adjusted | Crude | Adjusted | Crude | Adjusted | Crude | Adjusted | Crude | Adjusted | |
Model 1: religious attendance | ||||||||||
Non-attending | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) | 1 (ref) |
Attending | 0.61 (0.39–0.94)* | 0.57 (0.36–0.88)* | 0.75 (0.52–1.09) | 0.74 (0.51–1.08) | 1.08 (0.62–1.88) | 1.03 (0.59–1.80) | 1.40 (0.84–2.34) | 1.39 (0.83–2.32) | 0.72 (0.48–1.09) | 0.67 (0.44–1.01) |
Model 2: spirituality (per SD) | 0.84 (0.76–0.92)*** | 0.88 (0.80–0.97)* | 0.91 (0.83–0.996)* | 0.91 (0.83–0.995)* | 0.93 (0.80–1.09) | 0.91 (0.78–1.07) | 1.05 (0.90–1.22) | 1.06 (0.91–1.24) | 0.98 (0.88–1.08) | 0.95 (0.85–1.05) |
Model 3: religious attendance and spirituality mutually adjusteda | ||||||||||
Attending versus non-attending | 0.75 (0.48–1.18) | 0.64 (0.40–1.02) | 0.84 (0.57–1.24) | 0.82 (0.55–1.23) | 1.22 (0.67–2.23) | 1.19 (0.65–2.16) | 1.39 (0.78–2.45) | 1.35 (0.76–2.38) | 0.71 (0.46–1.10) | 0.68 (0.44–1.07) |
Spirituality (per SD) | 0.86 (0.77–0.95)** | 0.91 (0.82–1.01) | 0.93 (0.84–1.02) | 0.92 (0.84–1.02) | 0.91 (0.77–1.08) | 0.90 (0.76–1.07) | 1.007 (0.85–1.19) | 1.02 (0.86–1.21) | 1.01 (0.90–1.13) | 0.98 (0.88–1.10) |
Model 4: interactionb | ||||||||||
Attendance versus non-attendance | 1.10 (0.68–1.80) | 0.96 (0.58–1.60) | 1.18 (0.75–1.87) | 1.17 (0.73–1.88) | 2.00 (1.08–3.72)* | 1.88 (1.01–3.53)* | 2.54 (1.34–4.82)** | 2.54 (1.34–4.83)** | 1.04 (0.61–1.78) | 0.96 (0.56–1.66) |
Spirituality (per SD) | 0.89 (0.80–0.995)* | 0.95 (0.85–1.06) | 0.96 (0.87–1.06) | 0.96 (0.86–1.06) | 1.01 (0.84–1.20) | 0.99 (0.82–1.18) | 1.10 (0.92–1.31) | 1.12 (0.94–1.34) | 1.05 (0.93–1.18) | 1.02 (0.90–1.14) |
Religious attendance × spirituality (per SD) | 0.61 (0.43–0.87)** | 0.60 (0.41–0.87)** | 0.69 (0.50–0.95)* | 0.69 (0.50–0.95)* | 0.47 (0.29–0.78)** | 0.49 (0.30–0.82)** | 0.50 (0.30–0.82)** | 0.48 (0.29–0.80)** | 0.67 (0.46–0.98)* | 0.70 (0.47–1.02) |
*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001; Those with p-values below 0.05 are considered significant and are shown in bold; SD standard deviation
aModel 3: logit(Health-risk behaviour) = α + β1 * RA + β2 * spirituality + β3 * gender + β4 * age + β5 * SES + ε
bModel 4: logit(Health-risk behaviour) = α + β1 * RA + β2 * spirituality + β3 * RA * spirituality + β4 * gender + β5 * age + β6 * SES + ε