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. 2011 Dec 27;11:956. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-956

Table 2.

Logistic regression analysis Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for psychological distress at age 42 with peripheral employment score over 12 years as main exposure (the score is divided into no exposure, low exposure, medium exposure, high exposure) after adjustment for psychological distress age 30, sociodemographic variables, unemployment and out of labour market

Peripheral employment Women
Model 0 Model 1 Model 2 Model 3

No exposure 1 1 1 1

Low exposure 1.93 (1.10-3.72) 1.69 (0.92-3.11) 1.46 (0.80-2.66) 1.35 (0.71-2.57)

Medium exposure 1.89 (1.06-3.77) 1.70 (0.90-3.20) 1.55 (0.85-2.83) 1.46 (0.76-2.78)

High exposure 2.49 (1.44-4.31) 1.79 (0.98-3.29) 1.88 (1.03-3.45) 1.42 (0.73-2.74)

p-value for trend 0.001 0.034 0.033 0.228

Nagelkerke R2 0.041 0.194 0.071 0.209

Peripheral employment Men

Model 0 Model 1 Model 2 Model 3

No exposure 1 1 1 1

Low exposure 1.09 (0.59-2.00) 1.04 (0.54-1.97) 0.87 (0.46-1.66) 0.87 (0.45-1.71)

Medium exposure 1.70 (0.98-2.92) 1.44 (0.80-2.60) 1.47 (0.84-2.56) 1.27 (0.70-2.32)

High exposure 3.28 (1.86-5.79) 2.79 (1.52-5.14) 2.26 (1.21-4.22) 2.18 (1.14-4.20)

p-value for trend < 0.001 0.001 0.009 0.028

Nagelkerke R2 0.050 0.157 0.086 0.173

Model 0 crude odds ratios

Model 1 odds ratios adjusted for sociodemographic variables (socioeconomic position, marital status and parental status) and psychological distress at age 30

Model 2 odds ratios adjusted for number of periods of unemployment and out of labour market

Model 3 odds ratios adjusted for model 1+2