Table 4.
Regression coefficients and odds ratios for the likelihood of moderate and severe forms of anxiety (i.e. feeling afraid) due to COVID-19 by some selected significant characteristics, including the First Nations status of the respondentsa
| Feel Afraid (Reference category is not afraid) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afraid sometimes | Afraid often /all of the time | |||||
| Characteristic b | B | Odds Ratio | 95% CI | B | Odds Ratio | 95% CI |
| Non-First Nations | -0.92 | 0.40*** | (0.159, 1.006) | 0.15 | 0.87 | (0.124, 6.019) |
| Male | -0.05 | 0.95 | (0.493, 1.825) | 1.79 | 6.01** | (1.743, 20.721) |
| Children under 18 | 0.57 | 1.77* | (0.963, 3.238) | 0.90 | 2.45 | (0.605, 9.957) |
| Rural Town over 500ppl | -0.73 | 0.49* | (0.215, 1.070) | -1.60 | 0.20** | (0.050, 0.832) |
| Education | ||||||
| Year 12 | -0.86 | 0.42 | (0.141, 1.274) | 0.44 | 1.55 | (0.117, 20.461) |
| Trade/Diploma | -1.26 | 0.28** | (0.096, 0.840) | 0.17 | 1.18 | (0.091, 15.345) |
| Bachelor | -0.59 | 0.55 | (0.174, 1.752) | 1.69 | 5.39 | (0.456, 63.762) |
| Model fitting information | ||||||
| -2 Log Likelihood | 135.208. | |||||
| Chi-squared (df) | 41.994 (14)**** | |||||
aReference category of dependent variable is not afraid
bOmitted categories (i.e. reference class for each independent variable) not shown
*p<0·10; **p<0·05; ***p<0·01; ****p<0.001