Table 4.

Unadjusted and adjusted associations between study conditions, demographics, and mentions of terms related to dissemination materials in US state legislators’ social media posts and newsletters to constituents, 2021

	Mention of any terms broadly related to child maltreatment or any explicit mention of ACEs
	Unadjusted		Individual-level Model		Multilevel Model
	OR (95% CI)	p	AOR (95% CI)	p	AOR (95% CI)	p
Intervention vs. control (ref)	0.99 (0.72, 1.34)	.93	0.98 (0.72, 1.35)	.91	0.90 (0.38, 2.12)	.80
Intervention vs. enhanced control (ref)	1.24 (0.90, 1.70)	.19	1.22 (0.88, 1.68)	.24	1.40 (0.59, 3.34)	.44
Enhanced control vs. control (ref)	0.80 (0.57, 1.12)	.19	0.81 (0.57, 1.14)	.23	0.64 (0.26, 1.58)	.33
Democrat vs. Republican (ref)	1.76 (1.35, 2.29)	<.0001	1.20 (0.88, 1.63)	.25	1.15 (0.83, 1.59)	.41
Non-Hispanic White vs. not non-Hispanic White (ref)	0.67 (0.50, 0.91)	.01	0.85 (0.60, 1.19)	.34	1.04 (0.73, 1.49)	.84
Female vs. male (ref)	2.88 (2.22, 3.74)	<.0001	2.62 (1.99, 3.46)	<.0001	2.75 (2.08, 3.66)	<.0001

Multilevel models included a state-level random intercept. Terms broadly related to child maltreatment = “child abuse” and/or “physical abuse” and/or “child sexual abuse” and/or “child neglect” and/or “child maltreatment”), explicit mentions of ACEs = “adverse childhood experiences” and/or “ACEs.” Models adjust for political party affiliation, race/ethnicity, and gender

ACEs adverse childhood experiences, OR odds ratio, unadjusted, AOR adjusted odds ratio