Table 3.
Weighted logistic regression models for household food insufficiency, excellent child’s health status and emergency healthcare utilisation
| Variables† | Any household food insufficiency in past year | Excellent health status | Any emergency healthcare utilisation in past year | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full sample | Household income <200 % FPL | Full sample | Household income <200 % FPL | Full sample | Household income <200 % FPL | |||||||
| Log-odds | 95 % CI | Log-odds | 95 % CI | Log-odds | 95 % CI | Log-odds | 95 % CI | Log-odds | 95 % CI | Log-odds | 95 % CI | |
| SHCN | 0·49*** | 0·39, 0·58 | 0·62*** | 0·46, 0·77 | –0·70*** | –0·81, –0·60 | –0·66*** | –0·82, –0·50 | 0·22** | 0·10, 0·35 | 0·30** | 0·11, 0·49 |
| Any FI‡ | –1·61*** | –1·71, –1·51 | –1·67*** | –1·90, –1·44 | 0·61*** | 0·48, 0·75 | 0·65*** | 0·39, 0·90 | ||||
| SHCN × FI§ | 0·08 | –0·10, 0·27 | 0·14 | –0·17, 0·44 | 0·13 | –0·08, 0·34 | 0·15 | –0·19, 0·48 | ||||
| <100 % FPL | 1·38*** | 1·26, 1·50 | 0·12 | –0·01, 0·26 | –0·48*** | –0·60, –0·35 | –0·21** | –0·35, –0·07 | 0·56*** | 0·43, 0·70 | 0·35*** | 0·20, 0·50 |
| 100–199 % FPL | 1·29*** | 1·18, 1·39 | –0·28*** | –0·39, –0·17 | 0·22** | 0·09, 0·34 | ||||||
| Age | 0·01* | 0·00, 0·02 | 0·01* | 0·00, 0·03 | –0·03*** | –0·03, –0·02 | –0·05*** | –0·06, –0·04 | –0·06*** | –0·07, –0·05 | –0·07*** | –0·09, –0·05 |
| Female | 0·00 | –0·09, 0·09 | 0·03 | –0·11, 0·16 | –0·03 | –0·12, 0·05 | –0·02 | –0·16, 0·12 | –0·16** | –0·26, –0·07 | –0·08 | –0·24, 0·07 |
| Non-Hispanic black | 0·36*** | 0·23, 0·49 | 0·05 | –0·12, 0·22 | –0·36*** | –0·48, –0·24 | –0·27** | –0·45, –0·10 | 0·40*** | 0·26, 0·54 | 0·40*** | 0·22, 0·59 |
| Non-Hispanic other | 0·09 | –0·03, 0·21 | 0·01 | –0·17, 0·19 | –0·38*** | –0·50, –0·26 | –0·33** | –0·52, –0·13 | –0·03 | –0·17, 0·11 | –0·06 | –0·26, 0·14 |
| Hispanic | 0·26*** | 0·13, 0·38 | –0·02 | –0·19, 0·14 | –0·35*** | –0·47, –0·23 | –0·38*** | –0·55, –0·22 | 0·17* | 0·03, 0·31 | 0·14 | –0·05, 0·33 |
| Insured‖ | –0·30** | –0·48, –0·12 | –0·17 | –0·39, 0·05 | 0·14 | –0·04, 0·32 | 0·08 | –0·15, 0·31 | 0·22* | 0·02, 0·41 | 0·14 | –0·11, 0·39 |
| Unmet care needs¶ | 0·99*** | 0·66, 1·33 | 0·82** | 0·36, 1·29 | –0·39* | –0·74, –0·04 | –0·23 | –0·68, 0·22 | 0·16 | –0·17, 0·49 | 0·08 | –0·34, 0·49 |
| Smoking in house†† | 0·63*** | 0·37, 0·89 | 0·36* | 0·08, 0·64 | –0·23 | –0·47, 0·00 | –0·20 | –0·49, 0·09 | 0·47*** | 0·24, 0·71 | 0·56*** | 0·28, 0·84 |
| Excellent health status | –0·40*** | –0·51, –0·30 | –0·36*** | –0·52, –0·19 | ||||||||
FPL, federal poverty level; SHCN, special healthcare needs; FI, household food insufficiency.
Constant term omitted from table.
Any FI indicated any response other than that the household ‘could always afford to eat good nutritious meals’ over the past year.
SCHN × FI indicated an interaction between SHCN status and the presence of any FI.
Health insurance coverage for all of the past year indicated insured status.
Having any unmet medical or mental healthcare needs in the past year indicated an unmet care need.
If someone living in the child’s household used cigarettes, cigars or pipe tobacco and smoked inside the home, then ‘smoking in house’ was indicated.
*P < 0·05; **P < 0·01; ***P < 0·001; Bold values represent P-value, if P < 0.05.