TABLE 3.

Results of Ordinal Logistic Regression for the correlation between psychological distress severity and independent predictors.

Predictors	Crude OR [95% CI]	P-value	Adjusted OR [95% CI]	P-value
Age	0.67 [0.50–0.90]	0.008	0.64 [0.44–0.94]	0.022
Gender
Female	Reference		Reference
Male	0.67 [0.40–1.1]	0.141	0.56 [0.30–1.03]	0.063
Smoking
No	Reference		Reference
Yes	1.48 [0.81–2.72]	0.206	1.99 [1.10–3.39]	0.049
Study Level
Postgraduate	Reference		Reference
Undergraduate	0.59 [0.26–1.36]	0.216	0.53 [0.17–1.64]	0.272
University/College
Private	Reference		Reference
Public	1.96 [1.15–3.34]	0.013	1.43 [0.74–2.77]	0.287
Motivation for distance learning
Low	Reference		Reference
No	2.62 [1.40–4.93]	0.003	2.49 [1.29–4.80]	0.007
Moderate	0.99 [0.49–2.02]	0.983	1.27 [0.59–2.73]	0.535
High/Strong	0.08 [0.01–0.76]	0.028	0.10 [0.01–0.98]	0.048