Table 2.

Associations between fruit and vegetable intake and psychological distress in the Swiss population (Swiss Health Survey [50]); multinomial logistic regression^a

	Total (n = 20,220)
Distress level	low	moderate		high
		OR	95 % CI	OR	95 % CI
Vegetables/salad and/or vegetable juice (at least 3 portions per day)
unadjusted model	1	0.87	[0.76,1.00]	0.58	[0.46,0.74]
age and sex adjusted model	1	0.81	[0.70,0.93]	0.47	[0.37,0.61]
multivariable adjusted modelb	1	0.93	[0.80,1.07]	0.64	[0.50,0.83]
multivariable adjusted model plus dietc	1	0.93	[0.81,1.07]	0.64	[0.49,0.82]
Fruit and/or fruit juice (at least two portions per day)
unadjusted model	1	0.84	[0.76,0.94]	0.84	[0.70,1.00]
age and sex adjusted model	1	0.80	[0.71,0.89]	0.75	[0.62,0.90]
multivariable adjusted modelb	1	0.84	[0.75,0.94]	0.85	[0.70,1.03]
multivariable adjusted model plus dietc	1	0.83	[0.74,0.93]	0.84	[0.69,1.02]
At least 3 portions of vegetables and 2 portions of fruit per day (5-a-day)
unadjusted model	1	0.78	[0.66,0.91]	0.50	[0.38,0.67]
age and sex adjusted model	1	0.71	[0.60,0.84]	0.41	[0.30,0.54]
multivariable adjusted modelb	1	0.82	[0.69,0.97]	0.56	[0.41,0.76]
multivariable adjusted model plus dietc	1	0.82	[0.69,0.97]	0.55	[0.41,0.75]

^aWeighted

^bAdjusted for age, sex, nationality, smoking status, alcohol consumption, body mass index, physical activity, chronic diseases, education

^cAdjusted for age, sex, nationality, smoking status, alcohol consumption, body mass index, physical activity, chronic diseases, education, meat consumption, fish consumption, dairy products consumption