Indirect (mediating) effects for association between adolescent long-term condition and low educational attainment.
| Low educational attainment | ||||||||
| Boys | Girls | |||||||
| Indirect effects OR (CI) | P value | % mediated | N | Indirect effects OR (CI) | P value | % mediated | N | |
| Long-term school absences | – | – | – | – | 1.08 (1.03 to 1.12) | <0.001 | 14.09 | 4952 |
| Truancy | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Social exclusion | 1.03 (1.01 to 1.05) | .008 | 6.28 | 5132 | 1.02 (1.00 to 1.03) | 0.02 | 3.30 | 4966 |
| Psychological distress | – | – | – | – | 1.01 (1.00 to 1.03) | 0.05 | 2.96 | 4942 |
Analyses controlled for socioeconomic status, ethnicity and early adolescent educational attainment.
– indicates a non-significant relationship between health indicator and hypothesised mediator; therefore, mediator analyses were not conducted.