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. 2021 Jul 19;57(1):44–50. doi: 10.4085/1062-6050-0125.21

Table 4.

Likelihood of Adults Without Children Supporting Youth Sports Participationa

Odds Ratio (95% CI)
Predictors
All Contact Sports
Football
Ice Hockey
Soccer
Adult age 0.95 (0.94, 0.97)c 0.98 (0.97, 0.98)c 0.97 (0.96, 0.97)c 0.95 (0.94, 0.96)c
Adult gender
 Male Referent
 Female 0.88 (0.60, 1.29) 1.29 (1.12, 1.49)c 1.19 (1.04, 1.37)d 0.89 (0.72, 1.11)
Adult education
 High school or other Referent
 Bachelor's 1.51 (0.90, 2.52) 0.54 (0.43, 0.68)c 0.70 (0.54, 0.90)e 1.34 (0.97, 1.86)
 Master's 1.37 (0.79, 2.38) 0.39 (0.31, 0.50)c 0.55 (0.43, 0.72)c 1.31 (0.93, 1.85)
 Terminal 1.12 (0.59, 2.11) 0.29 (0.22, 0.38)c 0.37 (0.28, 0.50)c 0.82 (0.56, 1.20)
Medical practitioner?
 No Referent
 Yes 2.38 (1.16, 4.90)d 0.93 (0.77, 1.12) 1.14 (0.94, 1.39) 1.29 (0.94, 1.77)
Previous sport participation?b
 No Referent
 Yes 1.71 (0.95, 3.09) 3.27 (2.14, 4.87)c 4.26 (2.23, 8.17)c 2.29 (1.48, 3.54)c
Total no. concussions 0.93 (0.84,1.04) 1.06 (1.02, 1.11)e 1.05 (0.99, 1.11) 0.98 (0.93, 1.04)
Concussion confidence 1.01 (1.00, 1.01) 1.00 (0.99, 1.00) 1.01 (1.01, 1.02)d 0.99 (0.99, 1.00)
Hypothetical child gender
 Male Referent
 Female 0.94 (0.67, 1.33) 0.80 (0.71, 0.91)c 0.90 (0.80, 1.03) 0.92 (0.75, 1.11)
a

Adjusted odds ratios calculated via multivariate binary logistic regression with between-adults clustering for adults without children.

b

Previous adult sport participation for the respective column (eg, previous adult participation in football).

c

P < .001.

d

P < .05.

d

P < .01.