Table 5.

Stratified by the presence of any mental health problem (mental health case v. mental health non-case), unadjusted and adjusted multinomial logistic regression analysis showing the associations between job strain and alcohol consumption

	Non-drinkers				Low risk		Hazardous use				Harmful use
Characteristic	N	%	MOR (95% CI)	AMOR (95% CI)	N	%	N	%	MOR (95% CI)	AMOR (95% CI)	N	%	MOR (95% CI)	AMOR (95% CI)
Mental health case
Job strain
Low	96	10.56	1.00	1.00	479	52.70	290	31.90	1.00	1.00	44	4.84	1.00	1.00
High	291	12.53	1.18 (0.92 to 1.52)	1.18 (0.90 to 1.12)	1229	52.93	690	29.72	0.93 (0.78 to 1.10)	0.91 (0.76 to 1.09)	112	4.82	0.99 (0.69 to 1.43)	0.96 (0.66 to 1.39)
Active	187	10.57	1.08 (0.83 to 1.42)	1.08 (0.82 to 1.42)	859	48.56	641	36.24	1.23 (1.03 to 1.47)*	1.17 (0.97 to 1.41)	82	4.64	1.04 (0.71 to 1.52)	0.96 (0.65 to 1.41)
Passive	140	10.53	0.96 (0.73 to 1.28)	0.98 (0.73 to 1.30)	724	54.44	396	29.77	0.90 (0.75 to 1.09)	1.00 (0.82 to 1.22)	70	5.26	1.05 (0.71 to 1.56)	1.11 (0.75 to 1.67)
Mental health non-case
Job strain
Low	834	8.25	1.00	1.00	5417	53.60	3532	34.95	1.00	1.00	323	3.20	1.00	1.00
High	722	9.76	1.08 (0.97 to 1.21)	1.01 (0.90 to 1.12)	4321	58.39	2195	29.66	0.78 (0.73 to 0.83)***	0.87 (0.81 to 0.94)***	162	2.19	0.63 (0.52 to 0.76)***	0.70 (0.57 to 0.85)***
Active	805	8.49	1.01 (0.91 to 1.12)	0.98 (0.88 to 1.09)	5169	54.54	3245	34.24	0.96 (0.91 to 1.02)	0.96 (0.89 to 1.02)	258	2.72	0.84 (0.71 to 0.99)*	0.83 (0.70 to 0.98)*
Passive	645	9.14	1.02 (0.91 to 1.14)	0.95 (0.85 to 1.06)	4110	58.22	2132	30.20	0.80 (0.74 to 0.85)***	0.92 (0.86 to 0.99)*	172	2.44	0.70 (0.58 to 0.85)***	0.80 (0.66 to 0.96)*

Low risk drinking is the reference group. Row frequencies and percentages, with multinomial odds ratios (MOR) are shown.

*p < 0.05, ***p < 0.001.

Adjusted for age, gender, education, ethnicity, income, marital status, children under 18 and smoking status.