Mental health groups in high school students and later school dropout: a latent class and register-based follow-up analysis of the Danish National Youth Study

Table 4 Odds ratios for dropping out of school by mental health groups among Danish high school students

	Dropout	Unadjusted		Adjusted by age, ethnicity and parents’ education
	%	OR	95% CI	AOR	95% CI
Males
Flourishing (ref.)	5.0	1.00	–	1.00	–
Moderate mentally healthy	7.1	1.45	1.26 to 1.67	1.43	1.24 to 1.66
Emotionally challenged	7.9	1.62	1.39 to 1.89	1.60	1.37 to 1.88
Languishing	12.1	2.62	2.26 to 3.04	2.70	2.32 to 3.14
Females
Flourishing (ref.)	2.4	1.00		1.00
Moderate mentally healthy	4.3	1.81	1.53 to 2.15	1.73	1.45 to 2.06
Emotionally challenged	4.1	1.69	1.46 to 1.95	1.76	1.52 to 2.04
Languishing	7.8	3.37	2.94 to 3.87	3.43	2.98 to 3.95

OR = Odds Ratio; AOR = Adjusted Odds Ratio; CI = Confidence Interval. For all models: p value < 0.0001

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