The Scottish Health Survey 2011 - volume 2: children

Annual report of the Scottish Health Survey for 2011. Volume focussing on child health.

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Table 1.11 Estimated odds ratios for borderline/abnormal total difficulties scores, 2008-2011 combined, by associated risk factors and sex

Aged 4-12 2008-2011 combined
Independent variables
Boys Girls
Base (weighted) 2159 Odds ratio 95% CI Base (weighted) 2101 Odds ratio 95% CI
Equivalised annual household income quintile (p=0.053) (p=0.002)
1st (highest) 337 1.0 335 1.0
2 nd 433 0.80 0.47, 1.35 418 1.38 0.65, 2.92
3rd 388 0.77 0.45, 1.32 348 3.05 1.51, 6.13
4th 415 0.99 0.58, 1.70 369 1.97 0.98, 3.96
5th (lowest) 404 1.42 0.81, 2.48 369 3.41 1.63, 7.15
Question not answered 179 1.31 0.74, 2.33 184 2.21 1.01, 4.83
NS-SEC of household reference person (p=0.169) (p=0.025)
Managerial & professional 833 1.0 813 1.0
Intermediate 187 1.07 0.63, 1.83 187 1.00 0.55, 1.83
Small employers & own account workers 209 1.08 0.64, 1.81 191 0.97 0.49, 1.92
Lower supervisory & technical 234 1.25 0.78, 1.99 223 1.38 0.79, 2.40
Semi-routine & routine 631 1.32 0.90, 1.93 557 1.87 1.23, 2.85
Question not answered 62 2.73 1.31, 5.70 52 2.31 1.05, 5.08
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation quintile (p=<0.001) (p=0.085)
5th (least deprived) 398 1.0 406 1.0
4th 477 0.98 0.59, 1.62 460 0.96 0.51, 1.81
3rd 424 1.84 1.14, 2.99 407 1.42 0.77, 2.62
2nd 416 1.85 1.12, 3.04 326 1.38 0.73, 2.60
1st (most deprived) 441 2.42 1.48, 3.96 424 1.90 1.03, 3.49
Number of children in household (p=0.743) (p=0.003)
1 545 1.0 480 1.0
2 1193 0.86 0.64, 1.16 1168 0.61 0.41, 0.90
3 333 0.98 0.65, 1.47 316 0.99 0.63, 1.56
4 or more 85 0.86 0.46, 1.62 59 1.69 0.88, 3.26
Self-assessed general health (p=<0.001) (p=<0.001)
Very gooda 1480 1.0 1394 1.0
Good 576 1.76 1.32, 2.36 537 2.30 1.64, 3.24
Fair/Bad/Very bad 100 3.95 2.52, 6.20 92 5.75 3.46, 9.55
Summary physical activity (including school) (p=<0.001) (p=0.588)
Meets recommendationsb 1691 1.0 1515 1.0
Some activity 299 1.59 1.09, 2.32 329 0.83 0.53, 1.29
Low activity 166 2.17 1.42, 3.33 179 1.12 0.67, 1.84

a This category includes 1 boy who did not answer the question.

b This category includes 25 boys and 36 girls who did not answer the question.

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