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Table 2 Means and standard deviations for variables used in analysis, by parental history of imprisonment in females

From: Parental imprisonment, childhood behavioral problems, and adolescent and young adult cardiometabolic risk: results from a prospective Australian birth cohort study

 

Female respondents [N = 1,758 at birth]

 

Parental Imprisonment

No Parental Imprisonment

 

N

Mean/%

SD

N

Mean/%

SD

p-value

Dependent Variables

       

  Age 14

       

   BMI

66

21.61

4.62

1,466

20.94

3.90

0.171

  Age 21

       

   BMI

48

25.04

6.45

1,069

24.14

5.28

0.249

  Age 30

       

   BMI

39

29.15

8.77

805

26.59

6.43

0.017

   DBP

37

72.45

10.34

779

68.95

9.21

0.025

   SBP

37

117.14

13.63

779

110.54

12.63

0.002

   Waist Circumference

37

91.34

16.87

779

86.59

15.05

0.063

CBCL age 5 problem behaviors

       

   SAT

75

5.52

3.24

1,678

4.36

2.95

0.001

   Internalizing

76

4.33

2.85

1,682

3.65

2.91

0.045

   Aggression

75

6.67

3.95

1,678

5.58

3.32

0.006

   Depression

76

4.18

2.86

1,682

3.44

2.80

0.025

Controls

       

   Pregnancy age 14

76

0%

 

1,682

0%

  

   Pregnancy age 21

51

5.9%

 

1,090

3.7%

 

0.418

   Pregnancy age 30

40

10.0%

 

836

11.0%

 

0.843

   Respondent Indigenous

75

9.3%

 

1,643

3.9%

 

0.021

   Respondent Asian

75

1.3%

 

1,643

3.35%

 

0.337

   Mother tertiary education

76

10.5%

 

1,671

20.9%

 

0.028

   Mother non-secondary education

76

21.1%

 

1,671

15.5%

 

0.194

   Mother’s age

76

24.74

5.56

1,682

25.67

4.95

0.114

   Mother’s pre-pregnancy BMI

76

22.19

5.58

1,682

21.87

3.84

0.482

   Child birth weight (kg)

76

3.28

0.55

1,682

3.35

0.48

0.194

  1. Notes: Sample size presented as the total number of respondents with non-missing data for the variable, by parental imprisonment. BMI = Body Mass Index; DBP = Diastolic Blood Pressure; SBP = Systolic Blood Pressure; CBCL = Child Behavioral Checklist; SAT = Social-Attention-Thought Disorder