Paternal predictors of the mental health of children of Vietnamese refugees

Table 4 Multiple regression analysis of paternal predictors of children's self-reported mental health (SDQ), n = 59, aged 10 - 18, using gee, correcting for siblings

Variable	Regression coefficients	p	Confidence interval
Child's age at inclusion	0.078	0.85	-0.70, 0.86
Child's gender^a	-0.83	0.62	-4.14, 2.48
GSI ^b T1	-0.77	0.74	-5.38, 3.83
PTSD^c T1	7.84	0.003	2.68, 13.00
Norwegian friends^d T2	-4.79	0.004	-8.02, -1.56

^a Gender: (Boy = 1, girl = 2), reference category "boy"
^b GSI = Global Severity Index of the Symptom Check List-90-R
^c PTSD T1: (No PTSD = 0, full or partial PTSD = 1), reference category "no PTSD"
^d Norwegian friends at T2: (10 or less = 0, more than 10 = 1), reference category "10 or less"

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