Socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent mental health in the Nordic countries in the 2000s - A study using cross-sectional data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study

Corell, Maria; Friberg, Peter; Petzold, Max; Löfstedt, Petra

doi:10.1186/s13690-024-01240-5

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Table 2 The distribution of SHC across PFW groups and associations between PFW and SHC in each Nordic country, 2002–2018

From: Socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent mental health in the Nordic countries in the 2000s - A study using cross-sectional data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study

Year		Sweden		Norway		Finland		Denmark		Iceland
Descriptive statistics		Mean	n	Mean	n	Mean	n	Mean	n	Mean	n
2002	Not well off	21.4^aw	110	18.8^aw	136	19.8^aw	118	16.9^aw	42
	Average	19.3^nw	306	15.8^nw	556	17.7^nw	561	14.8ⁿ	1068
	Well off (ref)	17.1	777	14.8	902	16.8	1038	14.4	230
	Total	18.1	1203	15.5	1603	17.3	1732	14.8	1353
2006	Not well off	24.0^aw	100	20.1^aw	77	20.4^w	72	17.8^aw	55	24.0^aw	85
	Average	18.8ⁿ	291	16.5^nw	383	18.6^w	517	15.3ⁿ	1093	19.8^nw	502
	Well off (ref)	18.1	1110	15.2	1012	17.3	1073	14.9	340	17.8	1268
	Total	18.6	1512	15.9	1501	17.8	1675	15.3	1536	18.6	1873
2010	Not well off	23.1^aw	115	22.5^aw	70	21.2^aw	148	18.7^aw	44	23.7^aw	218
	Average	18.9^nw	432	17.4^nw	294	18.6^nw	599	15.1ⁿ	906	18.8^nw	1039
	Well off (ref)	17.3	1472	15.6	811	16.4	1343	15.0	238	16.8	1950
	Total	18.0	2066	16.5	1328	17.4	2104	15.2	1219	17.9	3640
2014	Not well off	23.1^aw	141	22.1^aw	32	19.4^aw	182	19.4^aw	60	24.3^aw	187
	Average	20.6^nw	562	18.2^nw	210	16.5^nw	558	16.3ⁿ	870	19.8^nw	999
	Well off (ref)	18.5	1971	15.7	647	15.2	1205	15.9	301	17.2	2065
	Total	19.1	2730	16.5	909	16.0	1954	16.4	1251	18.4	3300
2018	Not well off	24.5^aw	49	20.3^w	22	25.5^aw	63
	Average	21.4^nw	312	19.2^w	116	20.4^nw	227
	Well off (ref)	19.4	1187	16.3	492	17.7	757
	Total	19.9	1571	17.1	667	18.8	1068
Regression analysis		B	95% C.I.	B	95% C.I.	B	95% C.I.	B	95% C.I.	B	95% C.I.
	PFW (1–5)	-1.43***	-1.57 to -1.29	-1.33***	-1.52 to -1.15	-1.13***	-1.26 to -0.99	-0.38**	-0.64 to -0.11	-1.69***	-1.86 to -1.53
	Survey year	0.13***	0.10 to 0.15	0.12***	0.09 to 0.15	0.00	-0.03 to 0.02	0.11***	0.08 to 0.14	-0.02	-0.07 to 0.03
	Girl	4.21***	3.96 to 4.47	3.14***	2.84 to 3.43	2.95***	2.70 to 3.20	2.68***	2.39 to 2.96	3.46***	3.18 to 3.75
	Adjusted R	0.150		0.112		0.097		0.071		0.112
	F	524.9	0.000	244.1	0.000	303.6	0.000	133.8	0.000	351.4	0.000

In the descriptive statistics: Significant (p < 0.05) test results between PFW groups: ^w= compared to the well off group ^a=compared to the average group. ⁿ=compared to the not well off group
In the regression models: * p < 0.05 ** p < 0.01 ***p < 0.001. P-values adjusted for multiple testing

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