Rates and correlates of illness anxiety disorder among health college students: A cross-sectional study

Table 5 Univariate Logistic regression for factors associated with illness anxiety disorder

		Odds ratio	95%CI		P value
			Lower	Upper
Gender	Male	0.93	0.52	1.68	0.816
	Female1	1.00
Age		0.89	0.72	1.10	0.266
College	College of Nursery	4.00	1.20	13.33	0.024a
	College of Emergent Medical Services	1.94	0.43	8.78	0.391
	College of Pharmacy	1.75	0.52	5.92	0.364
	College of Medicine	1.40	0.41	4.75	0.592
	College of Applied Health Sciences	1.38	0.42	4.57	0.598
	College of Dentistry1	1.00
Academic year	First year	5.83	0.70	48.42	0.102
	Second year	2.89	0.35	24.23	0.327
	Third year	2.73	0.34	22.12	0.347
	Fourth year	3.61	0.44	29.87	0.234
	Fifth year	5.00	0.52	48.07	0.163
	Intern1	1.00
Have you ever been diagnosed with psychiatric disorder?	Yes	1.49	0.73	3.07	0.275
	No1	1.00
Are you currently suffering from any chronic disease?	Yes	0.87	0.35	2.20	0.769
	No1	1.00
Have you ever been diagnosed with a chronic disease when you were a child?	Yes	1.06	0.38	2.92	0.916
	No1	1.00
Have you ever been mistreated/abused in your childhood?	Verbal abuse	1.98	0.98	4.03	0.058
	Physical abuse	2.21	0.85	5.70	0.103
	Sexual abuse	5.15	1.76	15.01	0.003a
	Neglect	2.54	0.84	7.73	0.099
	None1	1.00
Have any of your family members been previously diagnosed with psychiatric illness?	Yes	1.88	1.03	3.44	0.041a
	No1	1.00
Do any of your family members have a chronic or serious chronic disease?	Yes	0.90	0.51	1.59	0.708
	No1	1.00

^aP ≤ 0.05.

¹Used as a reference.

95%CI: 95% confidence interval.