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. 2018 May 29;64(1):115–124. doi: 10.1007/s00038-018-1116-4

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)
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 (0.521.09) 0.74 (0.511.08) 1.08 (0.621.88) 1.03 (0.591.80) 1.40 (0.842.34) 1.39 (0.832.32) 0.72 (0.481.09) 0.67 (0.441.01)
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 (0.801.09) 0.91 (0.781.07) 1.05 (0.901.22) 1.06 (0.911.24) 0.98 (0.881.08) 0.95 (0.851.05)
Model 3: religious attendance and spirituality mutually adjusteda
 Attending versus non-attending 0.75 (0.481.18) 0.64 (0.401.02) 0.84 (0.571.24) 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 (0.770.95)** 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 (1.083.72)* 1.88 (1.013.53)* 2.54 (1.344.82)** 2.54 (1.344.83)** 1.04 (0.61–1.78) 0.96 (0.56–1.66)
 Spirituality (per SD) 0.89 (0.800.995)* 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 (0.430.87)** 0.60 (0.410.87)** 0.69 (0.500.95)* 0.69 (0.500.95)* 0.47 (0.290.78)** 0.49 (0.300.82)** 0.50 (0.300.82)** 0.48 (0.290.80)** 0.67 (0.460.98)* 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