Table 7.
Association between adverse childhood experiences exposure, psychological distress by demographic characteristics of students May to July 2018, Nsukka, Nigeria
| Variables | ACEs Exposure | Psychological distress | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | Presence | Absence | |||||
| n(%) | n(%) | AOR (95% CI) | P-value | n(%) | n(%) | AOR (95%CI) | P-value | |
| Gender | ||||||||
| Female (ref) | 109 (90.8) | 11 (9.2) | 69 (57.5) | 51 (42.5) | 1 | |||
| Male | 67 (80.7) | 16 (19.3) | 2.21 (0.95, 5.11) | 0.065 | 42 (50.6) | 41 (49.4) | 1.36 (0.75, 2.46) | 0.317 |
| Parental Education | ||||||||
| NFE (ref) | 39 (86.7) | 6 (13.3) | 1 | 31 (68.9) | 14 (31.1) | 1 | ||
| PRY EDU | 34 (91.9) | 3 (8.1) | 1.56 (0.35, 6.86) | 0.560 | 24 (64.9) | 13 (35.1) | 0.79 (0.30, 2.04) | 0.619 |
| SEC EDU | 69 (88.5) | 9 (11.5) | 1.08 (0.35, 3.34) | 0.892 | 38 (48.7) | 40 (51.3) | 0.35 (0.16, 0.79) | 0.012 |
| TER EDU | 34 (79.1) | 9 (20.9) | 0.57 (0.18, 1.80) | 0.341 | 18 (41.9) | 25 (58.1) | 0.30 (0.12, 0.74) | 0.009 |
| Parental income | ||||||||
| Low income (ref) | 66 (85.7) | 11 (14.3) | 1 | 39 (50.6) | 38 (49.4) | 1 | ||
| Middle income | 67 (85.9) | 11 (14.1) | 1.07 (0.42, 2.72) | 0.886 | 51 (65.4) | 27 (34.6) | 2.19 (1.11, 4.32) | 0.024 |
| High income | 43 (89.6) | 5 (10.4) | 1.55 (0.49, 4.88) | 0.453 | 21 (43.8) | 27 (56.3) | 0.81 (0.38, 1.71) | 0.575 |
Note. AOR adjusted odds ratio, 95% CI 95% confidence intervals, ref. reference category; Hosmer and Lemeshow test, p-value = 0.13 (model 1); Hosmer and Lemeshow test, p-value = 0.874 (model 2)
**p-value < 0.001. *p-value < 0.05