Table 4.

Odds ratios for predictors of self-medicating pain with alcohol for tooth pain.

	Step 1 Demographic variables	Step 2 + symptom variables	Step 3 + socioeconomic variables	Step 3 + health behavior variables
	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Race/ethnicity
NH Whites	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Hispanic	0.4 (0.3–0.5) ***	0.4 (0.3–0.5) ***	0.4 (0.3–0.6) ***	0.4 (0.3–0.6) ***
NH Blacks	0.3 (0.2–0.5) ***	0.4 (0.3–0.5) ***	0.4 (0.3–0.6) ***	0.3 (0.2–0.6) ***
Sex
Females	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Males	2.8 (2.2–3.5) ***	2.7 (2.2–3.5) ***	2.9 (2.3–3.7) ***	2.7 (1.9–3.7) ***
Age	0.9 (0.9–0.9)***	0.9 (0.9–0.9)***	0.9 (0.9–0.9)***	0.9 (0.9–0.9)***
Pain frequency		1.1 (1.0–1.2)*	1.1 (1.0–1.3)*	1.2 (1.1–1.4)**
Depression		1.1 (1.1–1.3)*	1.1 (1.0–1.3)*	1.1 (1.0–1.3)*
Interference with activities		0.9 (0.9–0.9)*	0.9 (0.9–1.0)	0.9 (0.9–1.0)
Marital status			0.6 (0.5–0.8) ***	0.6 (0.5–0.8) ***
Income			1.2 (1.1–1.3) ***	1.2 (1.1–1.3) ***
Education			1.2 (1.1–1.3) **	1.2 (1.1–1.3) **
Prescription pain medication				1.2 (1.1–1.6) *
OTC pain medication				1.2 (1.1–1.5) *

Note: Coefficients (OR) and confidence intervals (CI) are rounded to the nearest 0.1. Significance:

^*p < .05,

^**p< .01,

^***p< .001.