The excess costs of childhood food allergy on Canadian families: a cross-sectional study

Table 5 Multiple linear regression analyses predicting intangible costs incurred by the household, responding parent, spouse, and child among participants falling above and below the provincial median annual income level

	Participants above the median income level			Participants below the median income level
	ß	95% CI	p-value	ß	95% CI	p-value
Responding Parent Well-being
Controls	Ref	Ref		Ref	Ref
Cases	0.01	− 0.81, 0.82	0.98	− 0.06	− 0.86, 0.74	0.87
Spouse Well-being
Controls	Ref	Ref		Ref	Ref
Cases	− 0.58	− 1.17, 0.01	0.06	0.71	− 0.43, 1.85	0.21
Child Well-being
Controls	Ref	Ref		Ref	Ref
Cases	− 0.71	− 1.68, 0.26	0.15	− 1.36	− 2.67, − 0.06	0.04
Income sufficiency
Controls	Ref	Ref		Ref	Ref
Cases	$13,689.03	$ − 5475.06; $32,853.11	0.16	$ − 5031.31	$ − 12,192.16, $2129.53	0.16

Number of household members and allergic comorbidities status (i.e., presence vs. absence) are included as covariates in each of the models. Annual household income was also included as a covariate in each of the models predicting well-being. Income sufficiency quantifies the difference between a family’s actual income and the income they deem sufficient to meet their needs
95% CI 95th percent confidence interval

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