Table 4.
Odds ratios of the presence of wave 1 sub-clinical anxiety disorder1, sub-clinical specific phobia, and nervousness2 with new onset of alcohol abuse or dependence by gender based on initial and multiple logistic regression analyses (n=587).
| New Onset Alcohol Disorder | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unadjusted Model 1 | Model 23 | Model 34 | |||||||
| OR | 95% CI5 | p-value | OR | 95% CI | p-value | OR | 95% CI | p-value | |
| Females | |||||||||
| Any Sub-Clinical Anxiety Disorder | 3.55 | 1.09 – 11.60 | 0.04 | 4.67 | 1.33 – 16.38 | 0.02 | 4.60 | 1.28 – 16.51 | 0.02 |
| Sub-Clinical Specific Phobia | 3.82 | 1.14 – 12.79 | 0.03 | 5.53 | 1.52 – 20.18 | 0.01 | 5.76 | 1.52 – 21.77 | 0.01 |
| Nervousness | 2.72 | 0.85 – 8.78 | 0.09 | 3.20 | 0.94 – 10.96 | 0.06 | 2.87 | 0.78 – 10.61 | 0.11 |
| Males | |||||||||
| Any Sub-Clinical Anxiety Disorder | 1.83 | 0.35 – 9.56 | 0.47 | 1.43 | 0.25 – 8.43 | 0.69 | 1.56 | 0.25 – 9.80 | 0.67 |
| Sub-Clinical Specific Phobia | 2.74 | 0.51 – 14.69 | 0.24 | 2.15 | 0.34 – 13.62 | 0.42 | 2.07 | 0.31 – 14.04 | 0.46 |
| Nervousness | 0.60 | 0.07 – 5.06 | 0.64 | 0.95 | 0.10 – 9.06 | 0.96 | 1.04 | 0.10 – 10.54 | 0.98 |
Full criteria anxiety disorders were removed due to insufficient cell sizes.
Nervousness is a dichotomous variable “Are you a nervous person?”
This model controls for age, race, educational level, and marital status.
This model adds controls for lifetime history of affective disorders, schizophrenic disorders, illicit drug abuse and dependence, a history of household drinking, and the other DSM-III anxiety disorders including: panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, social phobia, agoraphobia, and specific phobia.
CI, confidence interval.