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Table 4 Risk ratios (RR) with 95% Confidence intervals (CI) for a Development and Well-being Assessment (DAWBA) based diagnosis of mental disorder among adolescents at 18 years of age according to externalized and internalized sub-scale scores of Youth Self Report (YSR) and covariates

From: Teenagers’ mental health problems predict probable mental diagnosis 3 years later among girls, but what about the boys?

 

Univariate

Multivariable

RR

95% CI

p

RR

95% CI

p

YSR Internalizing symptoms at age 15, 1-unit increase

1.08

7.6%

1.05–1.1

< 0.001

1.04

1.01–1.07

0.007

YSR Externalizing symptoms at age 15, 1-unit increase

1.08

7.7%

1.05–1.10

< 0.001

1.06

1.02–1.09

0.002

Sex, female vs. male

   

2.47

1.26–4.86

0.008

  1. A modified univariate and multivariable Poisson regression analysis
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

ISSN: 1753-2000