Table 3.

Adjusted^a associations (OR and 95%CI) of microbial diversity indices and loads with behavioral problems, n=171

	Diversity indicesb				Microbial loadc
	Bacteria		Fungi		Gram-negative load	Gram-positive load	Fungal load
	Chao1	Shannon	Chao1	Shannon
Peer relationship scale	0.86 [0.44;1.64]	0.91 [0.52;1.63]	1.16 [0.60;2.21]	1.03 [0.53;2.00]	1.32 [0.93;1.92]	1.39 [0.97;2.05]	1.11 [0.80;1.59]
Emotional scale	0.81 [0.47;1.39]	1.06 [0.65;1.74]	1.13 [0.65;1.94]	0.82 [0.47;1.41]	0.95 [0.71;1.27]	0.97 [0.75;1.29]	0.88 [0.67;1.15]
Conduct scale	0.80 [0.47;1.35]	0.71 [0.44;1.15]	0.68 [0.40;1.15]	0.68 [0.40;1.14]	1.10 [0.84;1.45]	0.96 [0.74;1.24]	1.19 [0.92;1.59]
Hyperactivity scale	0.66 [0.35;1.22]	0.82 [0.47;1.44]	0.61 [0.31;1.14]	0.49 [0.25;0.91]	1.54 [1.09;2.22]	1.70 [1.18;2.56]	1.67 [1.15;2.53]
Total difficulties Score	0.61 [0.31;1.16]	0.70 [0.40;1.24]	0.72 [0.35;1.39]	0.43 [0.20;0.85]	1.55 [1.07;2.30]	1.46 [1.01;2.20]	1.34 [0.94;1.98]

^aAssociations adjusted for child’s sex and age, maternal education, sampling duration, number of household members, and urbanicity. Estimates presented in bold are statistically significant p<0.05

^bAssociations with microbial diversity indices are expressed for IQR increments

^cAssociations with microbial load are expressed for a 2-fold increment