Association of CYP MH spend per person aged 0–18 with explanatory factors (main model)
Main analysis | SA 1—excluding outliers | SA 2—including eating disorders | |
Ratio of means (SE) (95% CI) | Ratio of means (SE) (95% CI) | Ratio of means (SE) (95% CI) | |
Children entering youth justice per 1000 aged 0–18 | 1.04 (0.03) (0.99 to 1.09) | 1.02 (0.02) (0.97 to 1.07) | 1.03 (0.03) (0.98 to 1.09) |
Children in need (family stress), rate per 100 aged 0–18 | 1.05 (0.05) (0.96 to 1.15) | 1.04 (0.04) (0.97 to 1.13) | 1.06 (0.05) (0.98 to 1.16) |
Obese children (reception year) | 0.94 (0.05) (0.84 to 1.05) | 0.95 (0.05) (0.86 to 1.05) | 0.94 (0.05) (0.84 to 1.05) |
Children with excess weight (reception year) | 1.05 (0.04) (0.98 to 1.12) | 1.05 (0.03) (0.99 to 1.11) | 1.04 (0.03) (0.98 to 1.11) |
Children in care per 1000 aged 0–18 | 1.04* (0.02) (1.00 to 1.07) | 1.03* (0.01) (1.00 to 1.05) | 1.04* (0.02) (1.01 to 1.07) |
Spend on MH per person over 18 (excl. CYP, £10) | 1.01 (0.01) (1.00 to 1.03) | 1.02** (0.01) (1.00 to 1.03) | 1.01* (0.01) (1.00 to 1.03) |
All physical health spend per person (£100) | 0.91** (0.04) (0.84 to 0.99) | 0.93* (0.03) (0.87 to 1.00) | 0.92** (0.04) (0.85 to 1.00) |
Percentage of black and minority ethnic | 0.99** (0.00) (0.98 to 1.00) | 0.99* (0.00) (0.98 to 1.00) | 0.99* (0.00) (0.99 to 1.00) |
Overcrowding | 1.01 (0.01) (0.99 to 1.03) | 1.01 (0.01) (0.99 to 1.02) | 1.01 (0.01) (0.99 to 1.02) |
Long-term unemployment | 1.03 (0.02) (1.00 to 1.06) | 1.02 (0.01) (0.99 to 1.04) | 1.02 (0.01) (0.99 to 1.05) |
Observations | 199 | 190 | 199 |
Akaike information criterion (AIC) | 1935 | 1855 | 1963 |
Bayesian information criterion (BIC) | 1971 | 1890 | 2000 |
Pseudo R-squared | 0.29 | 0.31 | 0.28 |
*P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001.
CYP MH, child and young person mental health; SA, sensitivity analysis.