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.