Table 4.

Results from simple and multiple linear regressions with child pervasive developmental score as the dependent variable and food insecurity score, maternal clinical depression, and other covariates as independent variables

	Model 1	p	Model 2	p	Model 3	p	Model 4	p
Food insecurity score	0.23 (0.08)	0.029	0.18 (0.08)	0.032	0.24 (0.10)	0.016	0.21 (0.10)	0.041
Maternal clinical depression			1.81 (0.74)	0.016			1.28 (0.10)	0.167
Male sex (vs female)					0.27 (0.62)	0.663	0.16 (0.62)	0.801
Mexican ethnicity (vs other ethnicity)					0.29 (0.66)	0.663	0.41 (0.67)	0.539
Mother married (vs not married)					−0.30 (0.68)	0.656	−0.11 (0.70)	0.873
Mother employed (vs not employed)					−0.46 (0.65)	0.477	−0.32 (0.66)	0.634
Mother with some college education or more (vs high school or less)					0.24 (0.81)	0.766	0.32 (0.82)	0.692
Maternal age					0.01 (0.06)	0.803	0.01 (0.06)	0.823
Food stamp/SNAP participation					−0.04 (0.63)	0.946	0.05 (0.63)	0.938
R2	0.05		0.079		0.069		0.083
Adjusted R2	0.04		0.068		0.001		0.006

B (SE) presented for each model

Bold indicates p<0.05