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Table 2 Association between any parental psychopathology and offspring SM

From: The impact of parental psychopathology and sociodemographic factors in selective mutism - a nationwide population-based study

Parental psychopathologya

Cases (N = 860)

N (%)

Controls (N = 3250)

N (%)

Unadjusted

OR (95% CI)

Adjusted

OR (95% CI)

None

501 (59.6)

2425 (75.3)

Reference

Reference

Both

69 (8.2)

108 (3.4)

3.0 (2.2–4.2)***

2.8 (2.0–4.0)***

Mother only

163 (19.4)

392 (12.2)

2.0 (1.6–2.5)***

2.0 (1.6–2.5)***

Father onlya

108 (12.8)

294 (9.1)

1.8 (1.4–2.3)***

1.7 (1.4–2.2)***

  1. Odds ratios (OR) were adjusted for socioeconomic status, maternal age and paternal age.
  2. aMissing paternal data for 19 cases (2.2%) and 31 controls (1.0%)
  3. *** P-value< 0.0001
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BMC Psychiatry

ISSN: 1471-244X

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