Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorders and associated factors one month after the outbreak of the COVID-19 among the public in southwestern China: a cross-sectional study

Lei, Lei; Zhu, Hongyi; Li, Yi; Dai, Tao; Zhao, Shouju; Zhang, Xiaochao; Muchu, Xiaoluzi; Su, Shaoyu

doi:10.1186/s12888-021-03527-1

Table 5 Factors associated with PTSD among the participants

From: Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorders and associated factors one month after the outbreak of the COVID-19 among the public in southwestern China: a cross-sectional study

Variables	B	SD	WALD	p	OR	95% CI
Sex
Female
Male*	0.395	0.131	9.026	0.003	1.484	1.147 ~ 1.920
Age group (years)
< 30
30 ~ 39	−0.251	0.151	2.759	0.097	0.778	0.578 ~ 1.046
40 ~ 49*	−0.928	0.218	18.116	<0.001	0.395	0.258 ~ 0.606
≥ 50	−0.421	0.279	2.270	0.132	0.656	0.380 ~ 1.135
Education level
Junior, middle school and below
High school	−0.591	0.321	3.398	0.065	0.554	0.295 ~ 1.038
University-level	−0.132	0.278	0.225	0.635	0.877	0.508 ~ 1.511
Occupational status
Student
Agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry	0.044	0.473	0.009	0.926	1.045	0.413 ~ 2.641
Healthcare workers*	0.581	0.223	6.780	0.009	1.788	1.155 ~ 2.277
Police, firefighters, soldiers	0.494	0.424	1.359	0.244	1.639	0.714 ~ 3.762
Accommodation, catering, entertainment, tourism	0.035	0.338	0.011	0.917	1.036	0.535 ~ 2.008
Manufacturing, construction industry, transportation industry	−0.083	0.242	0.117	0.732	0.921	0.573 ~ 1.479
Financial industry	−0.022	0.237	0.008	0.927	0.979	0.614 ~ 1.559
Technical service industry	0.212	0.240	0.780	0.377	1.237	0.772 ~ 1.981
Others	0.238	0.250	0.909	0.340	1.269	0.778 ~ 2.070
Self-evaluated level of knowledge about COVID-19
Not at all
Low	−0.326	0.823	0.157	0.692	0.722	0.144 ~ 3.620
Medium	−0.551	0.727	0.575	0.448	0.576	0.139 ~ 2.395
Well	−0.153	0.716	0.046	0.831	0.858	0.211 ~ 3.491
Very well	−0.181	0.716	0.064	0.801	0.835	0.205 ~ 3.399
Self-perceived health condition
Very bad
Bad	−1.382	0.983	1.975	0.160	0.251	0.037 ~ 1.725
Not too bad	−1.194	0.893	1.789	0.181	0.303	0.053 ~ 1.744
Good	−1.192	0.889	1.798	0.180	0.304	0.053 ~ 1.734
Very good	−0.598	0.892	0.449	0.503	0.550	0.096 ~ 3.161
Are you worried that you or your family may be infected?
Not at all
A little worried*	−0.503	0.159	9.940	0.002	0.605	0.442 ~ 0.827
Very worried*	−0.526	0.182	8.319	0.004	0.591	0.413 ~ 0.845
Property damage affected by COVID-19
0
< 5000	−0.264	0.148	3.196	0.074	0.768	0.575 ~ 1.026
5000 ~ 9999*	−0.633	0.195	10.567	0.001	0.531	0.362 ~ 0.778
10,000 ~ 29,999	0.060	0.221	0.075	0.784	1.062	0.689 ~ 1.637
> 30,000	−0.022	0.266	0.007	0.934	0.978	0.581 ~ 1.647
Different degree of being affected
Non-affected
Affected by at least one aspect	0.037	0.145	0.066	0.797	1.038	0.781 ~ 1.380
Affected by at least two aspects*	1.301	0.382	11.606	0.001	3.673	1.738 ~ 7.765
Affected by three aspects and above*	1.801	0.749	5.777	0.016	6.053	1.394 ~ 26.280
Constant	0.810	1.016	0.635	0.426	2.247

*P-value< 0.05, model fitness = 0.436 (Hosmer and Lemshow), <0.001 (Omnibus test), no multicolinearity (tolerance > 0.1and variance inflation factor (VIF) < 2)
OR odd ratio; PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder

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