Table 1 Prevalence of internalizing and externalizing mental disorders among Muslim and Druze adolescents by socio-demographic, psychosocial, health and school-related risk factors (weighted numbers and proportions)
Risk factors | Population group | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Muslim N = 1147 | Druze N = 440 | |||||||||||
N | % | Internalizing Disorder (15.8% N = 181) | Externalizing Disorder (4.2% N = 48) | N | % | Internalizing Disorder (5.9% N = 26) | Externalizing Disorder (5.5% N = 24) | |||||
% | (n) | % | (n) | % | (n) | % | (n) | |||||
Gender | ||||||||||||
 Male | 551 | 48.0 | 13.2 | (73) | 6.2 | (34) | 211 | 48.0 | 5.2 | (11) | 10.8 | (23) |
 Female | 596 | 52.0 | 18.1 | (108) | 2.3 | (14) | 229 | 52.0 | 6.6 | (15) | 0.4 | (1) |
χ2; df; p |  |  | 5.114; 1; .024 | 10.386; 1;,001 |  |  | 0.353; 1;.552 | 23.087; 1; .000 | ||||
SES Index | ||||||||||||
 Medium | -a |  |  |  |  |  | 251 | 57.0 | 4.4 | (11) | 5.6 | (14) |
 Medium-low | 527 | 45.9 | 11.2 | (59) | 7.0 | (37) | 189 | 43.0 | 7.9 | (15) | 5.3 | (10) |
 Very low | 620 | 54.1 | 19.8 | (123) | 1.8 | (11) | – |  |  |  |  |  |
χ2; df; p |  |  | 15.941; 1; .001 | 19.609; 1; .000 |  |  | 2.449; 1; 118 | .021; 1; .885 | ||||
Number of siblings | ||||||||||||
 1–2 | 287 | 25.0 | 27.5 | (79) | 2.1 | (6) | 126 | 28.7 | 8.7 | (11) | 2.4 | (3) |
 3–4 | 569 | 49.6 | 14.9 | (85) | 5.3 | (30) | 237 | 53.9 | 4.2 | (10) | 6.8 | (16) |
 5 or more | 276 | 24.1 | 6.5 | (18) | 4.3 | (12) | 75 | 17.1 | 6.7 | (5) | 6.7 | (5) |
 Missing | 15 | 1.3 |  |  |  |  | 1 | 0.3 |  |  |  |  |
χ2; df; p |  |  | 47.229; 2; .001 | 4.767; 2; .092 |  |  | 3.084; 2; .214 | 3.280; 2; .194 | ||||
Family in welfare care | ||||||||||||
 Yes | 268 | 23.3 | 14.2 | (38) | 5.4 | (45) | 67 | 15.3 | 4.5 | (3) | 7.5 | (5) |
 No | 838 | 73.1 | 16.9 | (141) | 1.1 | (3) | 365 | 83.0 | 5.8 | (21) | 5.2 | (19) |
 Missing | 42 | 3.6 |  |  |  |  | 8 | 1.7 |  |  |  |  |
χ2; df; p |  |  | 1.079; 1; .299 | 8.803; 1; .003 |  |  | 0.176; 1; 675 | 0.550; 1; .458 | ||||
Learning disability | ||||||||||||
 Yes | 72 | 6.3 | 27.8 | (20) | 27.8 | (20) | 8 | 1.7 | 57.1 | (4) | 57.1 | (4) |
 No | 1065 | 92.8 | 15.2 | (161) | 2.6 | (28) | 432 | 98.3 | 4.9 | (21) | 4.4 | (15) |
 Missing | 11 | 0.9 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
χ2; df; p |  |  | 7.979; 1; .005 | 105.141; 1; .000 |  |  | 35.060; 1; 000 | 38.600; 1; .000 | ||||
GHQ-12 of mother | ||||||||||||
 High | 414 | 36.1 | 22.9 | (95) | 7.5 | (31) | 100 | 22.8 | 4.7 | (16) | 9.0 | (9) |
 Low | 673 | 58.6 | 12.6 | (85) | 1.9 | (13) | 340 | 77.2 | 10.0 | (10) | 4.4 | (15) |
 Missing | 60 | 5.3 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
χ2; df; p |  |  | 19.648; 1; .000 | 20.374; 1; .000 |  |  | 3.895; 1; 048 | 3.154; 1; .076 | ||||
FDIb | ||||||||||||
 High | 353 | 30.7 | 20.1 | (71) | 5.4 | (19) | 7 | 1.7 | 0 |  | 25.0 | (2) |
 Low | 720 | 62.8 | 12.5 | (90) | 3.6 | (26) | 427 | 97.1 | 6.1 | (26) | 5.2 | (22) |
 Missing | 75 | 6.5 |  |  |  |  | 5 | 1.2 |  |  |  |  |
χ2; df; p |  |  | 10.765; 1; .001 | 1.877; 1; .171 |  |  | .452; 1; .501 | 5.934; 1; .015 | ||||