Effectiveness of the settings-based intervention Shaping the Social on preventing dropout from vocational education: a Danish non-randomized controlled trial

Table 2 Intervention effect on mediators, mediators’ effect on dropout, and intervention effect on dropout through mediators (N = 2396)

	Intervention effect on mediator	Mediator effect on dropout	Intervention effect on dropout through mediator
	Mean difference (95% CI)^a	OR (95% CI)^ab	OR (95% CI)^a
School connectedness	0.22 (0.09, 0.35)^**	0.84 (0.79, 0.89)^***	0.92 (0.85, 0.99)^*
Student support	0.19 (− 0.07, 0.44)	0.95 (0.93, 0.98)^**	0.95 (0.88, 1.03)
Teacher relatedness	0.07 (− 0.10, 0.24)	0.91 (0.87, 0.95)^***	0.96 (0.88, 1.03)
Valuing the profession	0.17 (0.02, 0.31)^*	0.82 (0.78, 0.87)^***	0.95 (0.88, 1.03)

^* p < 0.05; ^** p < 0.01; ^*** p < 0.001
^aAdjusted for baseline age, sex, ethnicity, parental income, prior school dropout, life satisfaction, academic self-efficacy, apprenticeship agreement
^bAdjusted for intervention condition

ISSN: 2050-7283