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Table 3 Crude odds ratios (OR) for the associations between mental illness (score ≥ 11) sociodemographic characters, country of origin by World Bank GNI classification and largest groups by probability rate of being granted protection status in EU with 95% confidence intervals (CI), for total sample and stratified by sex and legal status

From: Is legal status associated with mental illness among newly arrived refugees in Sweden: an epidemiological study

Crude odds ratios (OR) for mental illness

 

Total sample

Stratified by Sex

Stratified by Legal status

 

All

Men

Women

Asylum Seekers

Quota and other refugees

 

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

Sex

   

Women

1

  

1

1

Men

0.52 (0.36–0.73) ***

  

0.43(0.28–0.66)

***

0.65 (0.34–1.23)

Legal status

   

Asylum seekers

1

1

1

  

Quota and other refugees

0.49 (0.34–0.71) ***

0.55 (0.33–0.89) **

0.36 (0.20–0.65) ***

  

Age

   

14–25

1

1

1

1

1

26–35

1.47 (0.96–2.24)

1.68 (0.98–2.86)

0.99 (0.48–2.03)

1.25 (0.75–2.08)

1.65 (0.73–3.73)

36>

1.73 (1.16–2.58) ***

1.64 (0.99–2.72) *

1.53 (0.77–3.05)

1.79 (1.09–2.94) *

1.37 (0.66–2.82)

Country of origin by World bank GNI Classification

   

Low

1

1

1

1

1

Lower-middle

1.87 (1.23–2.84) *

1.42 (0.84–2.37)

4.01 (1.83–8.77) **

2.87 (1.26–6.64) **

1.01 (0.43–2.35)

Upper- middle and high

1.77 (1.19–2.61) *

1.16 (0.70–1.94)

3.36 (1.76–6.40) **

2.17 (1.03–4.53) *

1.54 (0.74–3.22)

Probability rate of first-time recognition

   

High

1

1

1

1

1

Middle

2.21 (1.32–3.70) ***

1.82 (0.93–3.55)

2.82 (1.25–6.39) **

1.09 (0.62–1.91)

4.0 (1.15–13.91) *

Low

2.17 (1.41–3.32) ***

1.67 (0.97–2.87)

3.59 (1.77–7.31) ***

1.13 (0.66–1.94)

1.0 (0.17–5.64)

  1. *p value < 0.05, **p-value < 0.01 ***p-value < 0.00