The impact of a specialist home-visiting intervention on the language outcomes of young mothers and their children: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

Table 3 Multivariatble analysis of predictors of maternal MLU (Model 1) and child MLU (Model 2)

Model 1	B	95% CI	p-value
NEET status at 24 months
No	Reference
Yes	− 0.161	− 0.264 to − 0.058	.002
Social support at 24 months	0.003	0.000–0.005	.066
Child MLU	0.200	0.107–0.294	.000
Sex of baby
Male	Reference
Female	0.059	− 0.042 to 0.159	.253
Substance abuse at 24 months	0.062	0.000–0.124	.050

Model 2	Odds ratio	95% CI	p-value
NEET status at 24 months
No	Reference
Yes	0.68	0.45–1.03	.071
Mother psychological distress at 24 months	0.98	0.96–1.01	.313
Mother MLU	1.61	1.13–2.29	.007
Sex of baby
Male	Reference
Female	2.36	1.59–3.49	.000
Number of weeks gestation	1.08	0.95–1.23	.224
Birth weight	1.00	1.00–1.01	.705

Model 1, predictors of maternal MLU. N = 472. Multivariable linear regression. Number of days breastfeeding was entered in a separate regression model with reduced sample who had data available (N = 339) and was also a significant predictor of mothers’ MLU, Odds ratio = .002, 95% CI (0.001–0.003), p = .003. Model 2, predictors of child MLU. N = 475. Multivariate ordinal regression
NEET not in education, employment or training; MLU mean length of utterance in morphemes

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