Western Australian adolescent emotional wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020

Table 3 Logistic regression results for elevated (moderate & high) levels of difficulties and distress for C1 and 2 data collections

	C1				C2
	OR	LCI	UCI	p	OR	LCI	UCI	p
Individual-level predictors
Gender (male)	2.34	2.18	2.52	< 0.001**	2.31	2.12	2.52	< 0.001**
Grade level
Grade 8	1.06	0.94	1.19	0.365	1.01	0.88	1.15	0.872
Grade 9	1.21	1.07	1.36	0.002**	1.07	0.95	1.22	0.273
Grade 10	1.24	1.10	1.39	0.004**	1.27	1.11	1.44	< 0.001**
Grade 11	1.27	1.12	1.44	< 0.001**	1.48	1.27	1.66	< 0.001**
Grade 12	1.72	1.50	2.00	< 0.001**	1.23	0.92	1.66	0.166
LOTE	1.00	0.92	1.09	0.940	0.96	0.92	1.06	0.417
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander	0.94	0.79	1.11	0.489	0.85	0.70	1.03	0.102
Educational region
Goldfields	0.88	0.60	1.30	0.527	0.80	0.59	1.08	0.139
Kimberley	0.56	0.39	0.82	0.002**	0.75	0.55	1.03	0.079
Midwest	0.83	0.35	1.99	0.684	0.53	0.23	1.21	0.132
North Metropolitan	1.03	0.89	1.18	0.695	1.11	1.01	1.23	0.035*
Pilbara	0.65	0.42	0.99	0.050	1.03	0.73	1.45	0.875
Southwest	0.91	0.73	1.13	0.420	0.74	0.63	0.88	0.001*
Wheatbelt	1.09	0.73	1.63	0.670	0.85	0.58	1.23	0.385
#people in home	0.98	0.95	1.00	0.137	0.98	0.95	1.02	0.297
Number of friends	0.89	0.87	0.92	< 0.001**	0.89	0.87	0.92	< 0.001**
Quality of friends	0.70	0.67	0.73	< 0.001**	0.73	0.69	0.77	< 0.001**
School connectedness	0.83	0.82	0.83	< 0.001**	0.82	0.81	0.83	< 0.001**
School-level predictors
ICSEA	0.99	0.95	1.01	0.400	1.00	1.00	1.00	0.037*
Number of students in school	1.00	1.00	1.00	0.118	1.00	1.00	1.00	0.223
Study arm	0.96	0.84	1.10	0.573	1.06	0.95	1.17	0.263

**p < 0.01. Reference groups - Distress: not distressed; Gender: male; Grade level: Grade 7; LOTE: No; Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander: No; Region: South metropolitan; Study arm: swab testing

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