. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2019 Feb 20;6(4):733–742. doi: 10.1007/s40615-019-00572-1

Table 2.

Associations between Discrimination and Health Risk Behaviors

	Unadjusted		Adjusted for age and gender
Outcome	OR (95% CI)	p- value	OR (95% CI)	p- value
Cigarettes (any in past year)	3.13 (1.37-7.13)	0.007	2.49 (1.05-5.91)	0.04
e-cigarettes (any in past year)	2.11 (0.98-4.56)	0.06	1.65 (0.74-3.66)	0.22
Drinking (any in past year)	1.60 (0.89-2.88)	0.11	1.24 (0.66-2.30)	0.51
Heavy drinking (any in past year)	1.69 (0.88-3.26)	0.12	1.23 (0.61-2.49)	0.56
Marijuana (any in past year)	1.34 (0.75-2.38)	.32	0.97 (0.52-1.81)	0.93
Consequences relates to alcohol use (any in past three months)	3.80 (1.67-8.63)	.001	3.02 (1.26-7.25)	0.013
Consequences related to marijuana use (any in past three months)	1.82 (0.84-3.95)	.13	1.41 (0.63-3.17)	0.40
	b (95% CI)	p- value	b (95% CI)	p- value
Mental health (past one month)	−4.00 (2.60)	0.13	−3.31 (−8.38, 1.76)	0.20
Physical health (present)	−0.07 (0.13)	0.59	0.02 (−0.23, 0.27)	0.89

For analysis, the discrimination scale has been divided by 5 such that a one unit increase represents five additional perceived discrimination events.