Why Do Parents with Toddlers Store Poisonous Products Safely?

Table 3

Stepwise multiple logistic regression analyses with reported safe storage of medication and cleaning products as dependent variables and demographic (step 1), Protection Motivation Theory variables (step 2), and additional factors (step 3) as independent factors (𝑛=1722).

	Medication stored safe			Cleaning products stored safe
	Model 1; OR (95% CI)	Model 2; OR (95% CI)	Model 3; OR (95% CI)	Model 1; OR (95% CI)	Model 2; OR (95% CI)	Model 3; OR (95% CI)
Demographic variables
Age of child; is 11 through; 13 months	0.87 (0.67–1.12)	0.86 (0.65–1.13)	0.89 (0.67–1.17)	0.93 (0.74–1.16)	0.93 (0.72–1.20)	0.91 (0.70–1.17)
Child cannot; walk	0.84 (0.65–1.08)	0.81 (0.62–1.07)	0.84 (0.64–1.11)	0.79 (0.63–0.99)*	0.90 (0.69–1.16)	0.91 (0.71–1.18)
One child; in family	0.40 (0.31–0.50)***	0.37 (0.29–0.48)***	0.38 (0.29–0.49)***	0.49 (0.39–0.60)***	0.48 (0.37–0.61)***	0.46 (0.36–0.59)***
Non-Dutch; mother	0.75 (0.44–1.27)	0.84 (0.48–1.48)	0.80 (0.45–1.40)	0.50 (0.31–0.80)**	0.51 (0.30–0.88)*	0.50 (0.29–0.87)*
Mother is; unemployed	1.25 (0.95–1.64)	1.23 (0.92–1.65)	1.23 (0.92–1.65)	1.06 (0.84–1.34)	1.05 (0.80–1.37)	1.07 (0.81–1.40)
Mother had; lower education^1	1.26 (0.97–1.62)	1.17 (0.89–1.54)	1.16 (0.88–1.52)	1.16 (0.93–1.46)	0.95 (0.73–1.23)	0.94 (0.72–1.21)
Father had; lower education^1	1.22 (0.94–1.57)	1.11 (0.85–1.46)	1.09 (0.83–1.43)	1.30 (1.04–1.63)*	1.30 (1.01–1.68)*	1.30 (1.01–1.68)*
PMT-constructs
Perceived; vulnerability		0.78 (0.67–0.91)***	0.79 (0.67–0.92)**		0.63 (0.55–0.73)***	0.64 (0.55–0.74)***
Perceived; severity		1.10 (0.93–1.28)	1.08 (0.92–1.28)		1.02(0.84–1.23)	1.03 (0.85–1.25)
Response; efficacy		0.94 (0.81–1.08)	0.91 (0.79–1.05)		1.02 (0.87–1.19)	0.99 (0.84–1.16)
Self-efficacy		1.70 (1.43–2.03)***	1.67 (1.41–2.01)***		1.92 (1.64–2.25)***	1.86 (1.58–2.18)***
Advantages of; safe behavior		0.93 (0.66–1.30)	0.92 (0.65–1.31)		1.15 (0.82–1.61)	1.08 (0.76–1.53)
Disadvantages; of safe behavior		0.73 (0.57–0.92)**	0.76 (0.60–0.96)*		0.73 (0.60–0.88)***	0.74 (0.61–0.90)**
Social factors
Social; support			1.11 (1.01–1.22)*			1.01 (0.92–1.11)
Subjective; norm			0.89 (0.73–1.09)			1.00 (0.84–1.20)
Descriptive; norm			1.36 (1.15–1.61)***			1.33 (1.12–1.57)***
Nagelkerke 𝑅^2	0.079	0.220	0.237	0.062	0.325	0.334

¹Low educational level: intermediate level of secondary education or less.
*Significant at the 0.05 level **Significant at the 0.01 level ***Significant at the 0.001 level.