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Table 4 Factors associated with anxiety by using multivariable logistic regression among prisoners in Northwest Amhara correctional center

From: Anxiety and associated factors among prisoners in North West of Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia

Explanatory variables

Anxiety

COR,95 % CI

AOR,95 % CI

Yes (%)

No (%)

  

Frequency of conduct religious practice

  

 Always

103

205

1

 

 Sometimes

96

133

1.43 (1.00,2.05)

 

 Never

35

77

0.90 (0.56,1.43)

 

Did you feel happy with your life until you became a prisoner

 Yes

193

374

1

 

 No

41

41

1.94 (1.21,3.09)

2.49 (1.38,4.55)**

Had you been discriminated because of your imprisonment

 Yes

118

165

1

 

 No

116

250

0.65 (0.47,0.89)

 

Did you believe on the crime you made

 Yes

88

179

1

 

 No

105

208

1.03 (0.72,1.45)

 

 I don’t know

41

28

2.98 (1.74,5.17)

 

Family history of mental illness

    

 Yes

36

48

1

 

 No

198

367

0.72 (0.45,1.15)

 

Current cigarette smoking habit

    

 Yes

20

11

3.44 (1.6, 7.6)

2.6 (1.08, 6.6)*

 No

214

404

1

1

Is there any impossibilities that prevent you to resettle to the previous state

 Yes

107

106

1

 

 No

127

309

0.41 (0.29,0.57)

 

Do you have a hope that you could get excuse

 Yes

141

273

1

 

 No

93

142

1.27 (0.91,1.76)

 

Name of the prison

    

 Bahir Dar

136

104

1

1

 Debre Tabor

22

168

0.10 (0.06,0.16)

0.11 (0.06,0.20)***

 Gondar

76

143

0.41(0.28,0.59)

0.43(0.28,0.67)***

  1. *significant <0.05, **significant p< 0.01, ***significant p< 0.001