The link between mental health and safe drinking water behaviors in a vulnerable population in rural Malawi

Table 7 Interaction effects between mental health and RANAS psychosocial factors on self-reported safe drinking water transportation and storage behavior

Interactions of RANAS psychosocial factors with mental health	b, 95% CL	t	Conditional effects at values of mental health
	b, 95% CL	t	1 = poor	0 = good
Severity	−.496* [−.960, −.032]	−2.11	−.526*	−.031
Belief effort	.294* [.004, .584]	2.00	.141	−.154*
Others’ approval	−.980*** [−1.458, −.503]	−.4.05	−.425*	.556***

Notes. *p ≤ .05, **p ≤ .01, ***p ≤ .001. N = 172, confidence intervals: 95% CL [LL, UL]. Levels of moderator calculated with simple slopes analysis: values for dichotomous moderators are the two values of the moderator. Conditional effects of X (safe drinking water transportation and storage behavior) by mental health (0 = good, 1 = poor). Mental health accessed on SRQ-20 scale (0–20), cutoff point ≥7: people with a score equal or above 7, poor = 1, people with a score below 7, good = 0 mental health