Parental separation in childhood as a risk factor for depression in adulthood: a community-based study of adolescents screened for depression and followed up after 15 years

Bohman, Hannes; Låftman, Sara Brolin; Päären, Aivar; Jonsson, Ulf

doi:10.1186/s12888-017-1252-z

Table 4 Results from binary logistic regression analyses of parental separation in childhood and major depression in adulthood. Models adjusted for sex

From: Parental separation in childhood as a risk factor for depression in adulthood: a community-based study of adolescents screened for depression and followed up after 15 years

		coef.	s.e.	p	OR	95% CI	Pseudo R²
Non-depressed controls (n = 155)
Model 1	Parental separation	−0.24	0.40	0.544	0.78	0.36–1.73	0.01
Model 2	Parental separation	−0.19	0.42	0.659	0.83	0.36–1.90	0.01
	Major conflicts between parents	−0.27	0.65	0.679	0.76	0.21–2.73
Model 3	Parental separation	−0.24	0.40	0.558	0.79	0.36–1.74	0.01
	Major conflicts with parents	−0.34	0.84	0.688	0.71	0.14–3.70
Model 4	Parental separation	−0.23	0.41	0.582	0.80	0.35–1.79	0.01
	Family income reduced	−0.12	0.63	0.845	0.88	0.26–3.04
Model 5	Parental separation	−0.27	0.41	0.501	0.76	0.34–1.69	0.01
	Family moved to another city	0.20	0.39	0.596	1.23	0.58–2.61
Model 6^a	Parental separation	−0.24	0.41	0.551	0.78	0.35–1.74	0.01
	Parental depression	−0.02	0.41	0.968	0.98	0.44–2.18
Model 7^a	Parental separation	−0.19	0.44	0.664	0.83	0.35–1.95	0.02
	Major conflicts between parents	−0.35	0.70	0.616	0.70	0.18–2.80
	Major conflicts with parents	−0.42	0.87	0.625	0.65	0.12–3.58
	Family income reduced	−0.02	0.66	0.977	0.98	0.27–3.61
	Family moved to another city	0.31	0.41	0.453	1.36	0.61–3.04
	Parental depression	−0.09	0.42	0.832	0.91	0.40–2.09
Depressed (n = 227)
Model 1	Parental separation	0.69	0.29	0.016*	1.99	1.13–3.49	0.03
Model 2	Parental separation	0.64	0.30	0.032*	1.89	1.05–3.38	0.03
	Major conflicts between parents	0.21	0.32	0.513	1.23	0.66–2.30
Model 3	Parental separation	0.61	0.29	0.035*	1.85	1.05–3.27	0.04
	Major conflicts with parents	0.64	0.33	0.052	1.89	0.99–3.60
Model 4	Parental separation	0.65	0.29	0.026*	1.91	1.08–3.37	0.03
	Family income reduced	0.35	0.35	0.315	1.42	0.71–2.84
Model 5	Parental separation	0.62	0.29	0.032*	1.86	1.05–3.29	0.04
	Family moved to another city	0.67	0.30	0.026*	1.96	1.08–3.54
Model 6^a	Parental separation	0.69	0.30	0.020*	2.00	1.12–3.57	0.05
	Parental depression	0.67	0.30	0.026*	1.95	1.08–3.53
Model 7^a	Parental separation	0.55	0.32	0.081	1.74	0.93–3.23	0.08
	Major conflicts between parents	−0.20	0.37	0.594	0.82	0.40–1.70
	Major conflicts with parents	0.72	0.38	0.057	2.06	0.98–4.34
	Family income reduced	0.09	0.37	0.800	1.10	0.53–2.28
	Family moved to another city	0.75	0.32	0.019*	2.12	1.13–3.97
	Parental depression	0.60	0.31	0.055	1.82	0.99–3.35

*p < 0.05
^aNon-depressed controls n = 155; depressed n = 224
Bold text indicates results with p-values < 0.05

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