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Table 4 Predicting the presence of depressive disorders and suicidality by ACEs and covariates in detained adolescent offenders

From: The associations of cumulative adverse childhood experiences and irritability with mental disorders in detained male adolescent offenders

Variables

Depressive disorders

Suicidality

Unadjusted model

Adjusted modela

Unadjusted model

Adjusted modela

OR (95 % CI)

OR (95 % CI)

OR (95 % CI)

OR (95 % CI)

ACE total scoreb

2.23 (1.45–3.45)***

2.33 (1.44–3.78)**

1.89 (1.23–2.91)***

1.95 (1.21–3.14)**

Irritability scoreb

1.72 (1.12–2.63)**

1.82 (1.10–2.96)*

1.67 (1.07–2.61)*

1.78(1.07–2.99)*

ACE total scoreb * Irritabiliy scoreb

1.14 (0.79–1.63)

1.04 (0.64–1.69)

1.05 (0.71–1.54)

0.98 (0.62–1.57)

Age at incarcerationb

1.19 (0.80–1.77)

1.36 (0.86–2.16)

1.20 (0.80–1.83)

1.40 (0.87–2.25)

Foreign nationality

1.58 (0.72–3.46)

1.76 (0.72–-4.29)

1.01 (0.44–2.32)

0.95 (0.38–2.34)

low SES

1.10 (0.44–2.75)

0.95 (0.35–2.59)

0.66 (0.27–1.66)

1.83 (0.67–4.97)

  1. ACE adverse childhood experience, SES socio-economic status, CI confidence interval, OR odds ratios
  2. aAdjusted for demographics, ACE total score, and irritability score, and interaction term ACE total score * irritability score
  3. bz-Transformed
  4. Significance (two sided), * p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

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