Latino immigrant children's health: Effects
of sociodemographic variables and of a preventive intervention program.
A series of follow - up regressions examined the moderating effects of adolescent age, gender, race, ethnicity, and household status by creating a series of interaction terms for each of the family and school / community variables that involved, separately,
each of these sociodemographic variables.
The results for Step 1 (examining the role
of sociodemographic variables) and Step 2 (examining the direct role of the vision and marital quality variables) were identical across the models focusing on self - reported vision and visual acuity; the results for Step 3 (the test of moderation) varied across these models.
After controlling for the role
of sociodemographic variables, poorer self - reported vision was independently associated with more functional limitations, feelings of social isolation, and depressive symptomatology and poorer visual acuity predicted more functional limitations.
Weighted bivariate and multivariate logistic analyses were used to assess the relationship between maternal depressive symptoms (trichotomized to depression at both time points, at 1 time point, and at neither time point) and parental prevention practices, while controlling for a wide variety
of sociodemographic variables.
Separate logistic models were used to calculate P values for the interaction between levels
of each sociodemographic variable and seriousness of psychological distress to assess whether these AORs differed across strata.
A logistic regression model was fit to evaluate the effects
of each sociodemographic variable level on odds of screening positive for depression controlling for each of the other sociodemographic variables.
Not exact matches
Several studies underline the importance
of taking into account
sociodemographic variables such as victims» sex to better understand the phenomenon.
The study included 17,897 respondents from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), administered by the U.S. government since 1957 to examine a nationally representative sample
of U.S. households about health and
sociodemographic variables.
It also has to be noticed that the parameters, sex or gender, are not straight forward binary categories and that a multiple
of femininities or masculinities converge with other important
sociodemographic variables (4).
Coyne discusses the limits
of self reported distress among college students as an analogue for clinical depression.5 Secondly, participants in analogue studies differ from clinical populations in important
sociodemographic variables such as age, social class, and educational level.
Similarly, the size
of between - group differences in depressive symptoms may vary between studies that used groups matched on
sociodemographic variables and studies that did not control for these between - group differences, because the lack
of control for demographic
variables may cause unsystematic bias rather than a general overestimation or underestimation
of between - group differences in depressive symptoms.
Finally, we examined the association between
sociodemographic variables (child age, sex, race / ethnicity, maternal obesity, maternal education, poverty) and prevalence
of having a chronic condition during any part
of the 6 - year study period in multivariate logistic regression models that included all participants.
Five self - report questionnaires will be used at baseline and, except for the
sociodemographic variables, after the intervention is completed (12, 18 and 24 months later) to evaluate the short - term and long - term effects
of the intervention on primary (health) and secondary (social participation, life satisfaction and healthcare services utilisation) outcomes and to describe the participants (table 1).
Sociodemographic variables, such as sex, age, educational level, number
of children, marital status, and smoking status.
We will describe the
sociodemographic variables in our sample and will compare them with those
of other studies on psychopathology with Moroccan - Dutch participants.
Symptoms
of distress, depression, anxiety and stress were significantly higher and levels
of well - being were significantly lower in trainees compared with consultants, and this was not accounted for by differences in
sociodemographic variables.
Sociodemographic variables will include gender, education, marital status, place
of birth and annual family income.
Although there was a lower response among families
of minority groups (70 %) than among white families (84 %), (p <.01), t - tests and chi - square analyses indicated that minority - group respondents did not differ from minority - group nonrespondents on any birth status or
sociodemographic variable (p >.05).
Physical Punishment, Childhood Abuse and Psychiatric Disorders Afifi, Brownridge, Cox, & Sareen Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 30 (10), 2006 View Abstract Compares the childhood experience
of physical punishment or physical abuse and whether it was associated with adult psychopathology, after adjusting for
sociodemographic variables and parent - child attachment type.
Assessed families who attended 4
of 4 visits had significantly increased parental involvement in developmental advancement and parental verbal responsivity compared with those with fewer visits in the unadjusted (ES, 0.51 and 0.39, respectively) and multiple regression analyses adjusting for all
sociodemographic variables (0.51 and 0.40, respectively).
Descriptive statistics document the mean reported number
of trauma experiences and posttraumatic stress subscale scores by participants»
sociodemographic variables.
Responders and non-responders did not differ with respect to the prevalence rates
of psychopathology and associations between
sociodemographic variables and mental health outcomes [11].
There was strong evidence
of a relationship between
sociodemographic variables and trajectories
of conduct problems (S1 Table).
Third, hierarchical multiple regressions were conducted to examine whether (1) relationship quality
variables were associated with outcomes independently
of sociodemographic characteristics, and (2) ethnicity moderated relations
of parental acceptance or conflict with diabetes management and depressive symptoms.
There was strong evidence
of a relationship between
sociodemographic variables and missing data on depressive symptoms (S2 Table).
However, academic difficulties in children
of depressed mothers were not mediated by parental IQ,
sociodemographic variables or the mother's mental health after the postpartum depressive episode.
Symptoms
of mental health problems in 10th grade predicted use
of medical benefits at follow - up (tables 3 and 4), adjusted for
sociodemographic variables and for health behaviour.
Pearson product - moment correlation coefficients were computed to examine the relationship
of overall PTSD symptom severity with
sociodemographic and medical
variables.
Mean levels
of psychological well - being by parental status, controlling for
sociodemographic background
variables.
Social class was dropped because the large amount
of missing data reduced power and again similar
sociodemographic variables were already being included.
At the end
of this session, each parent received a set
of self - report questionnaires, including
sociodemographic variables, as well as the questionnaire measuring depressive symptoms in parents (see Measures subsection below).