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. 2022 Mar 3;131(4):422–434. doi: 10.1037/abn0000746

Table 4. Prenatal Prediction of Psychiatric Symptoms.

1. ADHD 2. Anxiety 3. Depressive 4. Disruptive behavior
Likelihood ratio Likelihood ratio Likelihood ratio Likelihood ratio
Chi-square Chi-square Chi-square Chi-square
Predictor b B (SE) (df), p b B (SE) (df), p b B (SE) (df), p b B (SE) (df), p
Note. BW = birth weight; GA = gestational age; Mat educ = maternal education. β coefficients, provided for effect size comparisons, were based on rerunning the generalized linear model with standardized predictor variables.
Prepregnancy BMI −.02 −.01 (.02) .043 (1) −.03 −.01 (.01) 2.39 (1) .03 .01(.004) 3.31 (1) .004 .00 (.04) .11 (1)
p = .836 p = .122 p = .069 p = .742
Child sex (female) −2.25 −2.25 (.17) 169.63 (1) −.03 −.03 (.04) .47 (1) .04 .04 (.05) 2.21 (1) −.14 −.14 (.02) 32.41 (1)
p < .000 p = .491 p = .137 p < .000
Prenatal anxiety .44 .13 (.03) 16.85 (1) .15 .04 (.01) 28.51 (1) .08 .02 (.01) 25.14 (1) .03 .01 (.01) 2.75 (1)
p < .000 p < .000 p < .000 p = .097
Postnatal anxiety .93 .29 (.03) 76.20 (1) .26 .08 (.01) 89.89 (1) .09 .03 (.01) 32.90 (1) .09 .03 (.01) 30.05 (1)
p < .000 p < .001 p < .000 p < .000
Prenatal 9.14 (3) 9.83 (3) 6.56 (3) 7.31 (3)
infections p = .027 p = .020 p = .087 p = .063
 0
 1 .49 .49 (.19) .00 .00 (.05) .01 .01 (.03) .07 .07 (.05)
 2 .40 .40 (.32) .23 .23 (.08) .11 .11 (.06) .07 .07 (.05)
 3+ 1.35 1.35 (.80) .29 .29 (.20) .19 .19 (.12) −.06 −.06 (.11)
BW −.40 −.001 (.0,002) 18.13 (1) −.04 .00 (.00) 3.15 (1) −.02 .00 (.00) 2.15 (1) −.01 .00 (.00) .89 (1)
p < .001 p = .076 p = .143 p = .346
GA .10 .08 (.07) 1.31 (1) .05 .04 (.02) 5.37 (1) .01 .01 (.01) .52 (1) .02 .02 (.02) 2.62 (1)
p = .252 p = .021 p = .472 p = .107
Mat age −.24 −.05 (.02) 6.71 (1) .01 .00 (.00) .06 (1) −.02 .00 (.00) 1.26 (1) −.01 .00 (.00) .33 (1)
p = .01 p = .813 p = .263 p = .567
Child age .22 .14 (.05) 6.28 (1) .05 .03 (.01) 4.71 (1) .01 .01 (.01) .90 (1) −.01 .00 (.00) .15 (1)
p = .012 p = .030 p = .371 p = .694
Mat educ −.21 −.17 (.08) 4.89 (1) .14 .12 (.02) 36.42 (1) .04 .03 (.01) 8.23 (1) .00 .00 (.01) .06 (1)
p = .029 p < .001 p = .004 p = .805
Crowding .13 .15 (.11) 2.01 (1) −.05 −.06 (.03) 4.46 (1) .01 .01 (.02) .36 (1) .02 .02 (.02) 1.75 (1)
p = .156 p = .035 p = .549 p = .186
Prenatal smoking .32 .08 (.02) 11.64 (1) .03 .01 (.01) 2.29 (1) .03 .01 (.00) 4.21 (1) .08 .02 (.003) 31.38 (1)
p < .001 p = .122 p = .040 p < .001