Table 3.
Logistic regression predicting the likelihood of anxiety symptoms (GAD-7 ≥ 15) based on the study characteristics.
| Variable | B | SE | Wald | df | p-value | Odds Ratio | 95% CI for odds ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Upper | |||||||
| Age (years) | 0.024 | 0.005 | 23.018 | 1 | <0.001** | 0.97 | 0.96 | 0.98 |
| Gender | ||||||||
| - Male | 1 | |||||||
| - Female | 0.068 | 0.073 | 0.873 | 1 | 0.35 | 1.07 | 0.92 | 1.23 |
| Marital status | ||||||||
| - Single (including widows and divorced) | 1 | |||||||
| - Married | 0.061 | 0.076 | 0.658 | 1 | 0.42 | 1.06 | 0.92 | 1.23 |
| Highest education | ||||||||
| - Elementary | 22.31 | 5 | <0.001** | |||||
| - Preparatory | 1.195 | 0.592 | 4.07 | 1 | 0.04* | 3.30 | 1.04 | 10.55 |
| - Secondary/diploma | 1.346 | 0.322 | 17.43 | 1 | <0.001** | 3.84 | 2.04 | 7.22 |
| - Bachelor/higher degree | 1.083 | 0.286 | 14.34 | 1 | <0.001** | 2.95 | 1.68 | 5.17 |
| - Post graduate (Master, PhD) | 1.123 | 0.283 | 15.74 | 1 | <0.001** | 3.07 | 1.76 | 5.35 |
| - Other | 0.868 | 0.304 | 8.16 | 1 | 0.004* | 2.38 | 1.31 | 4.32 |
| Occupation | ||||||||
| - Full-time employee | 21.84 | 5 | 0.001* | |||||
| - Unemployed | 0.338 | 0.094 | 12.87 | 1 | <0.001** | 0.71 | 0.59 | 0.85 |
| - Part-time employee | 0.369 | 0.11 | 11.34 | 1 | 0.001* | 0.69 | 0.55 | 0.85 |
| - Student | 0.242 | 0.083 | 8.46 | 1 | 0.004* | 0.78 | 0.66 | 0.92 |
| - Retired | 0.642 | 0.305 | 4.42 | 1 | 0.035* | 0.53 | 0.29 | 0.95 |
| - Other | 0.611 | 0.276 | 4.9 | 1 | 0.027* | 0.54 | 0.32 | 0.93 |
| Financial status | ||||||||
| - Stable income | 1 | |||||||
| - Non-stable income | 0.049 | 0.069 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.479 | 0.95 | 0.83 | 1.09 |
| Financial issue during COVID-19 pandemic | 0.282 | 0.058 | 23.67 | 1 | <0.001** | 1.33 | 1.81 | 1.49 |
| COVID-19 infection | 0.207 | 0.073 | 8.017 | 1 | 0.005* | 1.23 | 1.06 | 1.42 |
| Current health status | ||||||||
| - Best health | 186.626 | 4 | <0.001** | |||||
| - Good health | 0.14 | 0.072 | 3.79 | 1 | 0.051 | 1.15 | 0.99 | 1.33 |
| - Average health | 0.38 | 0.084 | 21.09 | 1 | <0.001** | 1.46 | 1.24 | 1.73 |
| - I feels unwell | 0.39 | 0.134 | 8.77 | 1 | 0.003* | 1.48 | 1.14 | 1.93 |
| - I am very ill | 1.88 | 0.144 | 172.02 | 1 | <0.001** | 6.57 | 4.95 | 8.7 |
| Considered suicide during COVID-19 lockdown | 1.16 | 0.078 | 222.07 | 1 | <0.001** | 3.19 | 2.74 | 3.72 |
| Abuse or domestic violence | 0.93 | 0.058 | 256.31 | 1 | <0.001** | 2.52 | 2.56 | 2.83 |
| Lockdown compliance | ||||||||
| - No personal isolation practices | 23.02 | 4 | <0.001** | |||||
| - A little | 0.365 | 0.098 | 13.85 | 1 | <0.001** | 1.44 | 1.19 | 1.74 |
| - Somewhat | 0.034 | 0.094 | 0.13 | 1 | 0.72 | 0.96 | 0.8 | 1.16 |
| - Most of the time | 0.068 | 0.084 | 0.66 | 1 | 0.42 | 0.93 | 0.79 | 1.1 |
| - Fully compliant to instruction | 0.033 | 0.076 | 0.18 | 1 | 0.67 | 0.97 | 0.83 | 1.24 |
*
Significant at p <0.05.
**
Significant at p <0.001.