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. 2010 Jun 22;4:17. doi: 10.1186/1753-2000-4-17

Table 3.

Adjusted odds ratio estimates of self-reported past-year drunkenness in the last 12 months, by gender

Male Female

OR 95% CI for OR OR 95% CI for OR OR 95% CI for OR OR 95% CI for OR
Adverse childhood experiences
Frequency of food shortage (ref. not often/never)
 Very often 0.98 [0.68,1.41] 0.81 [0.54,1.23] 1.2 [0.73,1.95] 1.25 [0.74,2.11]
 Somewhat often 1.12 [0.84,1.48] 1.01 [0.74,1.38] 0.98 [0.64,1.50] 0.97 [0.64,1.49]
Lived in a house with an alcoholic before age 10 years 2.54** [1.95,3.31] 2.33** [1.74,3.11] 3.07** [2.18,4.32] 2.68** [1.89,3.80]
Physically abused before age 10 years 1.53** [1.17,2.00] 1.49** [1.13,1.97] 2.08** [1.44,3.00] 1.94** [1.35,2.80]
Coerced into having first sex 1.26 [0.50,3.16] 1.03 [0.39,2.72] 1.91* [1.14,3.20] 1.67 [0.93,3.00]
Sociodemographics
Age 1.24** [1.17,1.32] 1.03 [0.93,1.13]
Importance of religion (ref. very important)
 Somewhat important 1.51* [1.05,2.18] 0.93 [0.57,1.51]
 Not important/no religion 1.35 [0.79,2.33] 1.33 [0.67,2.65]
In school (ref. out of school) 0.56** [0.41,0.77] 0.51** [0.33,0.78]
Female-headed household (ref. male-headed household) 0.8 [0.54,1.18] 1.31 [0.87,1.97]
Living arrangements (ref. both parents)
 Mother only 1.18 [0.77,1.83] 0.75 [0.44,1.28]
 Father only 0.82 [0.53,1.26] 0.92 [0.39,2.19]
 Neither parent 1.07 [0.77,1.49] 0.79 [0.49,1.28]
Rural resident (ref. urban resident) 0.68 [0.47,1.00] 1.26 [0.81,1.95]
Ever married (ref. never married) 1.78 [0.77,4.13] 1.01 [0.54,1.89]
Country of survey (ref. Burkina Faso)
 Ghana 2.41** [1.52,3.81] 2.35** [1.47,3.76]
 Malawi 2.00* [1.17,3.41] 0.69 [0.28,1.70]
 Uganda 3.73** [2.44,5.70] 2.81** [1.70,4.63]
Constant 0.07** [0.06,0.09] 0.00** [0.00,0.02] 0.03** [0.02,0.04] 0.01** [0.00,0.07]
N 4,968 4,943 4,851 4,832

Sample sizes are weighted and coefficients provided are odds ratios

p < 0.10; *p < .05; ** p < .01