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Table 5 Multinomial logistic regressions examining the mental health and job strain associations with the identified classes of health (risk) behaviours for men and women. Percentages are weighted with conditional probability weights. Adjusted multinomial odds ratios (AMOR), with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) are shown). Adjusted for sociodemographic and occupational variables found to be significantly associated with the identified classes for men and women (age, country, education, ethnicity, marital status, number of children under 18, years in police force, income, days of sickness absence in past year)

From: A latent class analysis of health risk behaviours in the UK Police Service and their associations with mental health and job strain

 

Class 1 N = 5,307

Healthiest (Ref.)

Class 2 N = 3,560

Healthy abstainers

Class 3 N = 7,092

Health risks but physically active

Class 4 N = 8,839

Low risk drinkers but other risks

Class 5 N = 990

High health risk behaviours

Men (N = 25,788)

N (%)

N (%)

AMOR (95% CI)

N (%)

AMOR (95% CI)

N (%)

AMOR (95% CI)

N (%)

AMOR (95% CI)

Depression

 Non-case

4,981 (95.07)

3,163 (89.35)

1.00

6,381 (91.86)

1.00

7,928 (91.11)

1.00

830 (85.40)

1.00

 Probable case

257 (4.93)

348 (10.65)

2.07 (1.73 to 2.47)***

573 (8.14)

1.66 (1.42 to 1.95)***

775 (8.89)

1.80 (1.55 to 2.10)***

137 (14.60)

3.09 (2.45 to 3.89)***

Anxiety

 Non-case

5,030 (96.16)

3,244 (92.00)

1.00

6,476 (93.14)

1.00

8,200 (94.34)

1.00

845 (87.09)

1.00

 Probable case

208 (3.84)

267 (8.00)

2.10 (1.72 to 2.56)***

478 (6.86)

1.82 (1.53 to 2.16)***

503 (5.66)

1.49 (1.25 to 1.77)***

122 (12.91)

3.51 (2.75 to 4.48)***

PTSD

         

 Non-case

4,773 (96.68)

3,228 (95.46)

1.00

6,273 (95.56)

1.00

8,076 (96.43)

1.00

818 (91.80)

1.00

 Probable case

164 (3.32)

145 (4.54)

1.34 (1.04 to 1.71)*

291 (4.44)

1.34 (1.09 to 1.64)**

306 (3.57)

1.09 (0.89 to 1.33)

73 (8.20)

2.53 (1.89 to 3.40)***

Job Strain

 Low

1,598 (21.78)

990 (27.95)

1.00

2,137 (30.99)

1.00

2,484 (28.18)

1.00

306 (32.27)

1.00

 High

1,142 (21.78)

878 (25.79)

1.21 (1.07 to 1.38)**

1,491 (21.52)

1.00 (0.89 to 1.11)

2,080 (24.40)

1.14 (1.03 to 1.26)**

208 (21.65)

1.01 (0.82 to 1.23)

 Active

1,525 (29.45)

1,018 (28.78)

1.10 (0.98 to 1.24)

2,120 (30.29)

1.04 (0.94 to 1.14)

2,484 (28.47)

1.07 (0.97 to 1.17)

303 (30.81)

1.05 (0.88 to 1.26)

 Passive

973 (18.53)

625 (17.47)

0.95 (0.83 to 1.09)

1,206 (17.20)

0.92 (0.82 to 1.03)

1,651 (18.95)

1.03 (0.93 to 1.15)

150 (15.26)

0.83 (0.67 to 1.03)

 

Class 1 N = 4,543

Healthiest (Ref.)

Class 2 N = 1,894

Healthy abstainers

Class 3 N = 2,072

Moderate health risk behaviours

Class 4 N = 6,121

Low risk drinkers but other risks

Class 5 N = 568

High health risk behaviours

Women (N = 15,198)

N (%)

N (%)

AMOR (95% CI)

N (%)

AMOR (95% CI)

N (%)

AMOR (95% CI)

N (%)

AMOR (95% CI)

Depression

 Non-case

4,034 (90.22)

1,612 (86.25)

1.00

1,612 (87.47)

1.00

5,280 (86.86)

1.00

429 (72.98)

1.00

 Probable case

439 (9.78)

258 (13.75)

1.36 (1.14 to 1.62)**

255 (12.53)

1.31 (1.10 to 1.55)**

775 (13.14)

1.39 (1.22 to 1.58)***

141 (27.02)

3.24 (2.57 to 4.08)***

Anxiety

 Non-case

3,982 (89.02)

1,637 (87.72)

1.00

1,784 (86.98)

1.00

5,319 (87.91)

1.00

448 (79.30)

1.00

 Probable case

491 (10.98)

233 (12.28)

1.10 (0.92 to 1.31)

256 (13.02)

1.20 (1.01 to 1.42)*

736 (12.09)

1.14 (1.01 to 1.30)*

113 (20.70)

2.16 (1.70 to 2.75)***

PTSD

 Non-case

4,140 (96.58)

1,654 (96.39)

1.00

1,677 (95.54)

1.00

5,681 (96.39)

1.00

518 (93.54)

1.00

 Probable case

147 (3.42)

63 (3.61)

1.01 (0.74 to 1.37)

80 (4.46)

1.35 (1.02 to 1.80)*

213 (3.61)

1.09 (0.87 to 1.36)

33 (6.46)

1.71 (1.12 to 2.60)*

Job Strain

         

 Low

1,086 (24.27)

418 (22.70)

1.00

488 (23.78)

1.00

1,370 (22.26)

1.00

138 (24.22)

1.00

 High

1,091 (24.40)

508 (26.96)

1.08 (0.92 to 1.27)

496 (24.50)

0.99 (0.85 to 1.16)

1,684 (28.14)

1.19 (1.06 to 1.34)**

144 (25.62)

1.01 (0.78 to 1.32)

 Active

1,198 (26.70)

466 (24.93)

1.00 (0.85 to 1.17)

552 (26.70)

1.02 (0.87 to 1.19)

1,452 (23.88)

1.02 (0.91 to 1.14)

124 (22.19)

0.78 (0.59 to 1.02)

 Passive

1,098 (24.63)

478 (25.41)

1.04 (0.88 to 1.21)

504 (25.02)

1.02 (0.88 to 1.20)

1,549 (25.72)

1.10 (0.98 to 1.23)

155 (27.97)

1.11 (0.86 to 1.44)

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