Prevalence, Reasons, Predictors, Perceived Effects, and Regulation of Alcohol Use among Children in Ghana

Table 3

Predictors of alcohol consumption among children.

Variables	AOR	Wald	95% CI	value
Sex
Male	1.272	4.200	1.011–1.601	0.040
Female (RC)
Age
8–10 Years (RC)
11–13 Years	2.666	11.000	1.493–4.758	0.001
14–17 Years	8.088	33.160	3.971-16.476	≤0.001
Education
Not in school/primary	1.307	0.376	0.555–3.075	0.540
JHS	1.542	1.532	0.777–3.062	0.216
SHS/vocational/technical/commercial	1.411	0.978	0.713–2.792	0.323
Tertiary (RC)
Religion
Christian	0.983	0.001	0.383–2.525	0.971
Muslim	0.951	0.010	0.355–2.548	0.921
Traditional	0.984	0.001	0.298–3.249	0.979
No religion (RC)
Region
Greater Accra (RC)
Central	0.818	0.607	0.493–1.357	0.436
Western	0.630	2.621	0.360–1.102	0.105
Eastern	0.320	13.592	0.175–0.587	≤0.001
Volta	1.052	0.044	0.655–1.689	0.834
Ashanti	0.739	1.523	0.457–1.195	0.217
Brong Ahafo	0.738	1.460	0.451–1.208	0.227
Northern	0.565	4.236	0.329–0.973	0.040
Upper East	1.044	0.021	0.579–1.883	0.885
Upper West	0.860	0.202	0.447–1.658	0.653

AOR = adjusted odds ratio; RC = reference category; CI = confidence interval.