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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Place. 2020 Apr 13;63:102331. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102331

Table 3.

Indirect Effects from Mediation of MTO Voucher Treatment on Mental Health by Subjective Neighborhood Context - Head of Household, 2002 MTO Interim Surveya

Girls’ Distress Boys’ Distress Boys’ BPI
Mediators Mediation Method Beta (SE) P Beta (SE) P Beta (SE) P
Neighborhood Disorder PM −0.029(0.011) 0.009 −0.007(0.010) 0.482 −0.017(0.010) 0.089
IOW −0.034(0.019) 0.072 −0.006(0.020) 0.764 0.003(0.022) 0.880
Social Disorder PM −0.040(0.012) 0.001 −0.012(0.011) 0.256 −0.022(0.011) 0.042
IOW −0.045(0.020) 0.024 −0.015(0.023) 0.503 −0.005(0.023) 0.837
Physical Disorder PM −0.013(0.008) 0.119 −0.001(0.007) 0.893 −0.008(0.007) 0.252
IOW −0.015(0.017) 0.380 −0.003(0.020) 0.893 0.017(0.020) 0.408
Informal Social Control PM −0.012(0.012) 0.306 −0.002(0.005) 0.712 0.006(0.005) 0.243
IOW −0.006(0.020) 0.754 −0.013(0.018) 0.48 0.028(0.018) 0.131
Violent Victimization PM −0.010(0.007) 0.128 0.000(0.006) 0.982 −0.017(0.009) 0.051
IOW −0.001(0.017) 0.943 −0.004(0.017) 0.83 0.011(0.019) 0.551
Safety PM −0.015(0.011) 0.186 0.003(0.010) 0.768 −0.016(0.010) 0.105
IOW −0.011(0.020) 0.579 0.002(0.023) 0.922 0.007(0.022) 0.766
Saw Drug Use/Selling PM 0.006(0.009) 0.460 0.002(0.007) 0.768 −0.002(0.007) 0.749
IOW 0.009 (0.018) 0.615 −0.005(0.020) 0.807 0.026(0.021) 0.222
a

Sample size varies with missingness on the mediator which varies from 3.5–7%: N=1426 girls, N=1403 boys

Notes: Linear regression models adjusted for: youth age, black race, Hispanic ethnicity, gifted student, learning problems, behavioral problems, school asked to talk about problems youth was having with schoolwork or behavior, youth expelled from school, parental education, parental marital status, parental employment status, parental school enrollment status, parental receipt of public assistance/welfare, no teens present in baseline household, lived in baseline neighborhood for 5 years or move, parent believed streets in baseline neighborhood were very unsafe at night, and moved more than 3 times prior to baseline.

PM=Product Method; IOW=Inverse Odds Weight