Adult support during childhood: a retrospective study of trusted adult relationships, sources of personal adult support and their association with childhood resilience resources

Table 1 Logistic regression analysis of ACEs, socio-demographics and their associations with access to an always-available adult during childhood

	Total count		Access to an always-available trusted adult before the age of 18 years
	N	%	AOR (95% CI)	p
ACE count
≥ 4 ACEs	1281	51.3	Ref	***
0 ACEs	478	19.1	9.389 (7.08–12.46)	***
1 ACE	403	16.1	5.995 (4.33–8.30)	***
2–3 ACEs	335	13.4	3.269 (2.40–4.46)	***
Sex
Male	1132	45.3	Ref
Female	1365	54.7	1.457 (1.89–1.79)	***
Age (years)
60–69	447	17.9	Ref	***
18–29	459	18.4	1.770 (1.27–2.47)	0.469
30–39	501	20.1	1.554 (1.12–2.16)	***
40–49	514	20.6	0.966 (0.72–1.30)	0.100
50–59	576	23.1	1.331 (0.98–1.82)	0.001
Deprivation quintile
1 (least deprived)	468	21.0	Ref	0.043
2	523	25.1	0.676 (0.49–0.94)	**
3	627	19.3	1.019 (0.74–1.41)	0.908
4	481	15.9	0.838 (0.60–1.17)	0.300
5 (most deprived)	398	18.7	0.986 (0.69–1.41)	0.938
Ethnicity
White	2407	96.4	Ref
Other ethnicities	90	3.6	1.202 (0.67–2.17)	0.540

Ref reference category, ACE adverse childhood experience, AOR adjusted odds ratio, CI confidence interval
***p < 0.001; **p < 0.01

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