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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 11.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2018 Sep 25;53(12):1413–1417. doi: 10.1007/s00127-018-1599-6

Table 1:

Associations between social support and age-18 psychotic experiences amongst adolescents exposed to poly-victimisation, split by gender

Social support subscale Boys
N=140
Girls
N=192
Sex differences
No Psychotic
Experiences
N=50
n (%)
Psychotic Experiences
N=90
n (%)
Unadjusted OR
(95% CI)
Adjusted OR*
(95% CI)
No Psychotic
Experiences
N=84
n (%)
Psychotic Experience
N=108
n (%)
Unadjusted OR
(95% CI)
Adjusted OR*
(95% CI)
Interaction OR*
(95% CI)
Total 18.6 (6.2) 18.4 (4.9) 0.99 (0.92–1.07) 0.99 (0.92–1.07) 21.0 (3.9) 17.8 (5.7) 0.87 (0.82–0.93) 0.88 (0.82–0.94) 0.88 (0.79–0.98)
Family 6.6 (2.2) 5.7 (2.4) 0.84 (0.68–1.03) 0.83 (0.66–1.04) 6.7 (2.2) 5.5 (2.7) 0.81 (0.71–0.93) 0.83 (0.72–0.96) 1.00 (0.75–1.32)
Friends 5.6 (2.6) 5.9 (2.4) 1.06 (0.92–1.21) 1.06 (0.92–1.22) 6.9 (1.8) 5.4 (2.7) 0.75 (0.65–0.87) 0.77 (0.66–0.89) 0.72 (0.59–0.89)
Significant Others 6.4 (2.5) 6.7 (2.0) 1.06 (0.90–1.24) 1.07 (0.89–1.28) 7.4 (1.5) 6.9 (2.0) 0.86 (0.72–1.03) 0.86 (0.71–1.03) 0.79 (0.61–1.02)
*

controlling for family socioeconomic status, family psychiatric history, age-12 psychotic symptoms, other mental health problems at age 12, and the non-independence of twin observations. OR, odds ratio. CI, confidence interval. Bold text indicates p<0.05.