The multinomial logistic regression model
Selected results of the multinomial logistic regression model are shown in Table 4. Parents with lower education (e.g., high school or junior college) and married status were more likely to be classified in the “high caregiving ability” class than in the “low caregiving ability” class. The corresponding ORs are: OR=2.679 (95%CI 1.116, 6.430) for high school; OR=3.734 (95%CI 1.473, 9.463) for junior college; and OR=4.298 (95%CI 1.070, 17.256) for married parents (see the second column of Table 5). On the contrast, parents with the following characteristics were less likely to be in the “high caregiving ability” class, but in the low caregiving ability class: parents with average monthly household income of 2000-5000CNY ($285-713) (OR=0.245, 95%CI 0.087, 0.691) or 5000-8000CNY ($713-1411) (OR=0.207, 95%CI 0.071, 0.608), daily caregiving time of less than 12h (OR=0.308, 95%CI 0.140, 0.675) or 12 to 18h (OR=0.293, 95%CI 0.115, 0.750), children aged less than 3 years old (OR=0.137, 95%CI 0.053, 0.355) and with a diagnosis of leukemia (OR=0.056, 95%CI 0.006, 0.520).
Model results for comparing “medium caregiving ability” class with the “low caregiving ability” class are shown in the third column of Table 5. Parents who were married (OR=5.447, 95%CI 1.588, 18.687), fathers (OR=2.399, 95%CI 1.162, 4.956), had high school education (OR=3.032, 95%CI 1.348, 6.818) or junior college (OR=5.416, 95%CI 2.269, 12.930) were more likely to be classified in the “medium caregiving ability” class than in the “low caregiving ability” class. Parents with average monthly household income of 2000-5000CNY ($285-713) (OR 0.245, 95%CI 0.087, 0.691) or 5000-8000CNY ($713-1411) (OR 0.207, 95%CI 0.071, 0.608), daily caregiving time less than 12h (OR 0.237, 95%CI 0.113, 0.499) or 12 to 18h (OR 0.422, 95%CI 0.185, 0.965), and children younger than 3 years old (OR 0.420, 95%CI 0.180, 0.981) were more likely to be in the “low caregiving ability” class than in the “medium caregiving ability” class.