Impact of 2013 south Asian haze crisis: study of physical and psychological symptoms and perceived dangerousness of pollution level

Table 2 Univariate regression analysis of factors which determined the psychological stress (n = 298)

	Mean avoidance score				Mean intrusion score				Mean hyper-arousal score				Total mean IES-R score				Total IES-R score
	B	SE	R²	p-value	B	SE	R²	p-value	B	SE	R²	p-value	B	SE	R²	p-value	B	SE	R²	p-value
Age	0.028	0.064	0.001	0.663	-0.043	0.080	0.001	0.595	0.035	0.095	0	0.714	0.004	0.068	0	0.952	0.089	1.492	0	0.952
Gender	-0.017	0.059	0	0.779	-0.032	0.075	0.001	0.671	-0.012	0.088	0	0.889	-0.021	0.063	0	0.740	-0.460	1.383	0	0.740
Ethnicity	0.046	0.087	0.001	0.600	0.009	0.110	0	0.936	-0.031	0.130	0	0.810	0.011	0.092	0	0.902	0.250	2.033	0	0.902
Marital status	-0.004	0.068	0	0.958	0.092	0.086	0.004	0.284	0.064	0.101	0.001	0.526	0.050	0.072	0.002	0.493	1.093	1.591	0.002	0.493
Occupation	0.006	0.034	0	0.859	-0.009	0.043	0	0.837	0.036	0.051	0.002	0.480	0.009	0.036	0	0.809	0.193	0.796	0	0.809
Presence of chronic medical illness	0.097	0.118	0.003	0.410	-0.070	0.144	0.001	0.626	0.132	0.167	0.002	0.430	0.046	0.122	0.001	0.708	1.010	2.691	0.001	0.708
Perceived dangerous PSI value	-0.017	0.059	0	0.779	-0.162	0.074	0.016	0.029	-0.217	0.087	0.020	0.013	-0.124	0.062	0.013	0.047	-2.734	1.374	0.013	0.047
The actual PSI value at the time of survey	-0.001	0	0.012	0.055	0	0	0	0.907	0	0.001	0.003	0.358	0	0	0.004	0.290	-0.008	0.008	0.004	0.290
Personal possession of N-95 mask	0.030	0.061	0.001	0.621	-0.142	0.077	0.011	0.068	-0.160	0.092	0.010	0.082	-0.084	0.065	0.006	0.199	-1.849	1.435	0.006	0.199
Perceived usefulness of N-95 mask	0.045	0.133	0	0.733	0.173	0.167	0.004	0.300	0.230	0.198	0.005	0.247	0.142	0.141	0.003	0.314	3.130	3.102	0.003	0.314
Total number of physical symptoms	0.048	0.011	0.061	<0.001	0.075	0.013	0.095	<0.001	0.130	0.015	0.207	<0.001	0.080	0.011	0.153	<0.001	1.759	0.240	0.153	<0.001

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