Table 3.
Multivariable logistic regression of predictors of symptomatic wheat avoidance, symptomatic dairy avoidance and symptomatic wheat-and-dairy avoidance; CSIRO Food and Health Survey, Australia, December 2010–February 2011
| 95 % CI for OR | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predictor | β | se | Wald | P | OR | Lower | Upper |
| SWA v. rest of the sample | |||||||
| Receptiveness to complementary medicine | 0·49 | 0·16 | 9·14 | 0·002 | 1·64 | 1·19 | 2·26 |
| Gender | −1·36 | 0·41 | 11·17 | 0·001 | 0·26 | 0·12 | 0·57 |
| Receptiveness to conventional medicine | −0·29 | 0·15 | 3·73 | 0·053 | 0·75 | 0·56 | 1·00 |
| Age | 0·01 | 0·01 | 0·94 | 0·333 | 1·01 | 0·99 | 1·03 |
| Analytical thinking style | 0·22 | 0·21 | 1·09 | 0·297 | 1·24 | 0·83 | 1·88 |
| Intuitive thinking style | 0·13 | 0·23 | 0·32 | 0·575 | 1·14 | 0·73 | 1·77 |
| Neuroticism | −0·40 | 0·28 | 2·11 | 0·147 | 0·67 | 0·39 | 1·15 |
| Illness worry | 0·09 | 0·20 | 0·19 | 0·662 | 1·09 | 0·73 | 1·63 |
| SDA v. rest of the sample | |||||||
| Receptiveness to complementary medicine | 0·12 | 0·12 | 1·13 | 0·288 | 1·13 | 0·90 | 1·42 |
| Gender | −0·09 | 0·24 | 0·16 | 0·692 | 0·91 | 0·57 | 1·45 |
| Receptiveness to conventional medicine | −0·08 | 0·12 | 0·42 | 0·519 | 0·93 | 0·73 | 1·17 |
| Age | −0·02 | 0·01 | 5·99 | 0·014 | 0·98 | 0·97 | 0·99 |
| Analytical thinking style | 0·09 | 0·15 | 0·33 | 0·568 | 1·09 | 0·81 | 1·47 |
| Intuitive thinking style | −0·13 | 0·16 | 0·64 | 0·423 | 0·88 | 0·65 | 1·20 |
| Neuroticism | 0·05 | 0·18 | 0·07 | 0·799 | 1·05 | 0·74 | 1·49 |
| Illness worry | 0·30 | 0·14 | 4·78 | 0·029 | 1·35 | 1·03 | 1·78 |
| SWDA v. rest of the sample | |||||||
| Receptiveness to complementary medicine | 0·48 | 0·17 | 8·21 | 0·004 | 1·62 | 1·16 | 2·25 |
| Gender | −1·30 | 0·42 | 9·72 | 0·002 | 0·27 | 0·12 | 0·62 |
| Receptiveness to conventional medicine | −0·62 | 0·14 | 18·52 | 0·000 | 0·54 | 0·41 | 0·71 |
| Age | 0·01 | 0·01 | 0·89 | 0·345 | 1·01 | 0·99 | 1·03 |
| Analytical thinking style | 0·40 | 0·22 | 3·30 | 0·069 | 1·49 | 0·97 | 2·30 |
| Intuitive thinking style | 0·07 | 0·23 | 0·10 | 0·753 | 1·08 | 0·69 | 1·69 |
| Neuroticism | −0·03 | 0·27 | 0·02 | 0·901 | 0·97 | 0·57 | 1·65 |
| Illness worry | 0·30 | 0·21 | 2·10 | 0·147 | 1·35 | 0·90 | 2·01 |
Model χ 2=90·42, P<0·001; n 1184.
Analyses involved a four-level classification of the sample as symptomatic wheat avoiders (SWA), symptomatic dairy avoiders (SDA), symptomatic wheat-and-dairy avoiders (SWDA) and the rest of the sample with cases of coeliac disease excluded.