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Table 7 Association between adverse childhood experiences exposure, psychological distress by demographic characteristics of students May to July 2018, Nsukka, Nigeria

From: Adverse childhood experiences and psychological distress among higher education students in Southeast Nigeria: an institutional-based cross-sectional study

Variables

ACEs Exposure

Psychological distress

Yes

No

  

Presence

Absence

  

n(%)

n(%)

AOR (95% CI)

P-value

n(%)

n(%)

AOR (95%CI)

P-value

Gender

 Female (ref)

109 (90.8)

11 (9.2)

  

69 (57.5)

51 (42.5)

1

 

  Male

67 (80.7)

16 (19.3)

2.21 (0.95, 5.11)

0.065

42 (50.6)

41 (49.4)

1.36 (0.75, 2.46)

0.317

Parental Education

 NFE (ref)

39 (86.7)

6 (13.3)

1

 

31 (68.9)

14 (31.1)

1

 

 PRY EDU

34 (91.9)

3 (8.1)

1.56 (0.35, 6.86)

0.560

24 (64.9)

13 (35.1)

0.79 (0.30, 2.04)

0.619

 SEC EDU

69 (88.5)

9 (11.5)

1.08 (0.35, 3.34)

0.892

38 (48.7)

40 (51.3)

0.35 (0.16, 0.79)

0.012

 TER EDU

34 (79.1)

9 (20.9)

0.57 (0.18, 1.80)

0.341

18 (41.9)

25 (58.1)

0.30 (0.12, 0.74)

0.009

Parental income

 Low income (ref)

66 (85.7)

11 (14.3)

1

 

39 (50.6)

38 (49.4)

1

 

 Middle income

67 (85.9)

11 (14.1)

1.07 (0.42, 2.72)

0.886

51 (65.4)

27 (34.6)

2.19 (1.11, 4.32)

0.024

 High income

43 (89.6)

5 (10.4)

1.55 (0.49, 4.88)

0.453

21 (43.8)

27 (56.3)

0.81 (0.38, 1.71)

0.575

  1. Note. AOR adjusted odds ratio, 95% CI 95% confidence intervals, ref. reference category; Hosmer and Lemeshow test, p-value = 0.13 (model 1); Hosmer and Lemeshow test, p-value = 0.874 (model 2)
  2. **p-value < 0.001. *p-value < 0.05