Table 5.

Unadjusted and fully-adjusted odds of being classified as developmentally vulnerable/at-risk on the Australian Early Development Census as an outcome of parental psychiatric hospitalisation type

	Single admission, 1 day (n = 246)			Single admission, 2 + days (n = 403)			Multiple admissions (n = 433)
AEDC Domain	OR	95% CI	pa	OR	95% CI	pa	OR	95% CI	pa
Unadjusted results
Physical health & wellbeing	2.15	(1.66–2.79)	0.001	1.79	(1.45–2.21)	0.001	1.85	(1.51–2.27)	0.001
Social competence	2.13	(1.64–2.76)	0.001	1.64	(1.33–2.02)	0.001	1.90	(1.56–2.32)	0.001
Emotional maturity	2.02	(1.56–2.61)	0.001	1.75	(1.43–2.15)	0.001	2.05	(1.69–2.49)	0.001
Communication skills & general knowledge	1.88	(1.44–2.45)	0.001	1.58	(1.27–1.96)	0.001	1.78	(1.45–2.18)	0.001
Language & cognitive skills	2.40	(1.87–3.09)	0.001	1.87	(1.53–2.28)	0.001	1.80	(1.49–2.19)	0.001
Fully-adjustedb results
Physical health & wellbeing	1.54	(1.18–2.02)	0.002	1.47	(1.18–1.82)	0.001	1.47	(1.19–1.81)	0.001
Social competence	1.50	(1.14–1.96)	0.006	1.30	(1.05–1.62)	0.018	1.51	(1.23–1.86)	0.001
Emotional maturity	1.42	(1.09–1.86)	0.010	1.41	(1.14–1.74)	0.003	1.63	(1.33–1.99)	0.001
Communication skills & general knowledge	1.32	(1.00–1.74)	0.05	1.31	(1.05–1.64)	0.038	1.46	(1.18–1.80)	0.002
Language & cognitive skills	1.59	(1.22–2.07)	0.001	1.47	(1.20–1.81)	0.001	1.35	(1.11–1.65)	0.003

OR, Odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; AEDC, Australian Early Development Census.

^aAdjusted p-values after Holm's correction applied.

^bAdjusted for child Aboriginality; parent age; mother's marital status; child's ESL status; and local community socioeconomic disadvantage and remoteness indices.