Underage Binge Drinking Adolescents: Sociodemographic Profile and Utilization of Family Doctors

Table 2

Logistic regression analysis of binge drinking status by demographic, health characteristics (𝑁=6,198). Source: 15–17 years old subsample of the Canadian Community Health Survey 1.1 [20].

	Odds ratios	95% confidence interval
Demographic characteristics
Gender^3
Female	1.00	Reference
Male	1.98	(1.68, 2.34)
Currently attending school/college
Yes	1.00	Reference
No	1.47	(1.17, 1.86)
Race (self-report)
Non-White	1.00	Reference
White	4.33	(3.06, 6.13)
Living Arrangement
Child with 2 parents	1.00	Reference
Child with single parent	1.15	(0.93, 1.42)
Unattached	2.28	(1.53, 3.39)
Other	1.33	(1.04, 1.70)
Socioeconomic characteristics
Income adequacy
Low	1.00	Reference
Middle	1.16	(0.84, 1.60)
High	1.35	(1.00, 1.82)
Missing data	1.26	(0.90, 1.77)
Not Enough to eat due to lack of money
Always enough food	1.00	Reference
Sometimes/often not enough	1.05	(0.79, 1.41)
Physical health characteristics
Activities prevented by pain
No activity prevented	1.00	Reference
Some activity prevented	1.35	(0.92, 1.98)
Chronic conditions
No chronic conditions	1.00	Reference
One chronic condition	0.79	(0.54, 1.16)
Two+ chronic condition	0.53	(0.25, 1.11)
Self-reported health decline (1 yr)
Much better/same	1.00	Reference
Somewhat/much worse	1.85	(1.44, 2.38)
Asthma
No	1.00	Reference
Yes	1.08	(0.71, 1.64)
Back problems; (excluding arthritis)
No	1.00	Reference
Yes	1.87	(1.20, 2.92)
Migraines
No	1.00	Reference
Yes	1.40	(0.90, 2.18)
Mental health characteristics
Depression
Not depressed	1.00	Reference
Depressed	1.62	(1.25, 2.10)
Health behaviors
Smoking status
Never smoked	1.00	Reference
Former or current smoker	5.58	(4.70, 6.65)

³𝑃<.001 for gender by binge drinking chi-square.