Self-reported mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and its association with alcohol and cannabis use: a latent class analysis

Table 3 Associations of class membership with alcohol and cannabis use (Adjusted odds ratios)

	Cannabis use	Heavy episodic drinking	Increase in cannabis use	Increase in alcohol use
Main model
High-symptom class	2.28*** (1.92–2.70)	1.71*** (1.49–1.96)	3.50*** (2.80–4.37)	2.37*** (2.06–2.74)
Testing associations by sex
High-symptom class	2.54*** (2.02–3.20)	1.76*** (1.45–2.14)	4.04*** (3.02–5.41)	2.83*** (2.30–3.48)
Women	0.71*** (0.58–0.87)	0.71*** (0.62–0.82)	0.73** (0.54–0.99)	1.06 (0.90–1.23)
High-symptom class*women	0.79 (0.57–1.10)	0.94 (0.72–1.23)	0.71 (0.46–1.10)	0.72** (0.54–0.95)

Odds ratios adjusted for sex, age, marital status, education, ethnicity, living area, household income, the presence of children, and other people in the household (see the Additional file 2 for the full estimation table). High-symptom class*women represents the interaction term variable between high-symptom class and women indicator variables
Legend: 95% confidence level in parentheses. Significance level *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05

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