Table. 3 Multinomial regression of demographic characteristics and latent class membership compared to adolescents from the low concurrent risk class

From: Syndemics of complex risk factors in adolescents: findings from the youth risk behavior survey, 2021

Covariates

Complex high-risk vs Low risk. aOR (95% CI)

Moderate risk experimenters vs low risk. aOR (95% CI)

Recent polysubstance use/Covid sad vs low risk. aOR (95% CI)

Low-risk/COVID sad vs low risk. aOR (95% CI)

Male

0.45 (0.38–0.53)

0.84 (0.70—1.02)

0.43 (0.34–0.54)

0.29 (0.24–0.35)

Sexual Orientation

Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual

4.52 (3.58—5.70)

2.32 (1.93— 2.80)

3.33 (2.48–4.45)

4.40 (3.59–5.39)

Other sexual minority

2.95 (1.91— 4.57)

1.55 (0.77—3.13)

2.40 (1.53— 3.77)

6.23 (4.52—8.59)

Questioning

1.60 (1.11— 2.31)

0.85 (0.55— 1.32)

1.63 (1.02— 2.61)

2.89 (1.95—4.26)

Heterosexual

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Race/Ethnicity

Asian

0.19 (0.13—0.28)

0.27 (0.19— 0.39)

0.50 (0.31— 0.80)

0.78 (0.58—1.01)

Black

0.87 (0.61—1.23)

1.62 (1.27— 2.07)

1.00 (0.80—1.23)

0.86 (0.71—1.05)

 Hispanic

0.91 (0.60—1.37)

1.16 (0.88—1.53)

1.31 (1.13— 1.51)

1.17 (0.87 —1.58)

 Multiracial, Hispanic

1.36 (1.10— 1.68)

1.12 (0.87—1.43)

1.29 (0.92—1.81)

1.19 (0.81—1.73)

 Multiracial, non- Hispanic

1.19 (0.83 —1.71)

1.32 (0.88—1.97)

1.07 (0.73 - 1.57)

1.26 (0.92—1.74)

 White

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Grade Level

 Ninth

0.18 (0.13—0.24)

0.17 (0.13— 0.21)

0.60 (0.45— 0.79)

1.12 (0.81—1.54)

 Tenth

0.31 (0.23—0.40)

0.30 (0.24— 0.37)

0.86 (0.65— 1.14)

1.20 (0.93—1.56)

 Eleventh

0.60 (0.46—0.79)

0.58 (0.48—0.70)

1.13 (0.84–1.51)

1.28 (0.92—1.79)

 Twelfth

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  1. Boldface indicates statistical significance (p < 0.05).