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Table 4 Family time and parental addiction importance for the child addiction development: multilevel logistic regression analysis results

From: Family time, parental behaviour model and the initiation of smoking and alcohol use by ten-year-old children: an epidemiological study in Kaunas, Lithuania

Dependent Variable

Independent Variables

OR

95% CI

p

Boys:

    

Tried smoking

'Poor family time'

3.03*

1.15 – 7.96

0.025

 

Smoking mothers

1.38

0.44 – 4.29

0.583

 

Smoking fathers††

1.28

0.50 – 3.28

0.608

Tried alcohol

'Poor family time'

1.64

0.76 – 3.53

0.207

 

Mothers participating in parties once a month ‡‡

1.08

0.36 – 3.22

0.893

 

Mothers participating in parties at least once a week ‡‡

1.99

0.51 – 7.79

0.323

 

Fathers participating in parties once a month ‡‡

9.23*

1.02 – 83.7

0.048

 

Fathers participating in parties at least once a week‡‡

10.43*

1.11 – 98.1

0.040

Girls:

    

Tried alcohol

'Poor family time'

3.35*

1.22 – 9.21

0.019

 

Mothers participating in parties once a month‡‡

0.19*

0.04 – 0.86

0.031

 

Mothers participating in parties at least once a week ‡‡

0.36

0.05 – 2.54

0.307

 

Fathers participating in parties once a month ‡‡

4.75

0.75 – 30.1

0.098

 

Fathers participating in parties at least once a week ‡‡

4.34

0.57 – 32.9

0.155

  1. in comparison with 'good family time'
  2. in comparison with non-smoking mothers
  3. †† in comparison with non-smoking fathers
  4. ‡‡ in comparison with mothers/fathers seldom participating in alcohol-furnished parties
  5. * OR is significantly (p < 0.05) less or greater than 1