Lifetime Paid Work and Mental Health Problems among Poor Urban 9-to-13-Year-Old Children in Brazil

Table 4

Logistic regression model to estimate adjusted odds of correlates of lifetime paid work among children aged 9–13 years (𝑛=212) in Embu, São Paulo, Brazil.

Independent variables	OR (95% CI)	P
Child mental health problems^a
Pure internalizing problems^b	3.70 (1.16–11.78)	0.027
Pure externalizing problems^b	1.94 (0.20–18.91)	0.567
Both^b	1.64 (0.30–8.85)	0.567
Social isolation^c	7.07 (1.48–33.76)	0.014
Family socioeconomic status^d	0.87 (0.76–0.99)	0.046

OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval.
aCBCL/6–18 scores in the clinical range.
bCompared to none.
cMother never counting on family members and counting very little/not at all on neighbors: true (1) versus false (0).
dContinuous total score ranging from 2 to 25.