Virtual Grandparenting: Identifying Barriers to Supportive Video Chat between Grandparents and Grandchildren

Table 7

Ordinal model predicting grandparent reported frequency of grandparent-grandchild video chats.

Variable	Estimate	SE	Exp(Est.)			95% CI
Grandparent age (yrs.)	−0.03	0.01	0.97	−4.38	<.001	−0.05	−0.02
Child age (mo.)	−0.01	3e-3	0.99	−3.73	<.001	−0.02	−0.01
Grandparent education	0.07	0.06	1.07	1.28	.200	−0.04	0.18
Log (distance)	−6e-4	0.02	1.00	−0.04	.971	−0.03	0.03
Time zone difference	0.02	0.05	1.02	0.41	.685	−0.07	0.11
Met in person ()	−0.38	0.45	0.68	−0.84	.399	−0.54	0.07
Comfort with technology	0.11	0.05	1.12	2.09	.037	0.01	0.21
Devices owned	0.06	0.04	1.06	1.59	.113	−0.01	0.13
Device type ()	−0.23	0.16	0.79	−1.49	.137	−0.53	0.08
Technology barriers	0.17	0.07	1.19	2.37	.017	0.03	0.32
Social barriers	−0.07	0.08	0.93	−0.84	.403	−0.23	0.09
Intercept (1|2)	−3.98	0.76	0.02	−5.21	<.001	−5.47	−2.49
Intercept (2|3)	−1.96	0.75	0.14	−2.60	.009	−3.43	−0.49
Intercept (3|4)	0.29	0.75	1.34	0.38	.702	−1.18	1.76

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