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Table 5 Association Between Country of Birth and Outcome Variables Adjusted for All Dependent Variables, Including the Migration-Related Variables Language Spoken at home and Years in Sweden: SALLS 1994–2001, Age 25–84 (Swedish-born respondents excluded)

From: Mental health of immigrants from the former Soviet Bloc: a future problem for primary health care in the enlarged European Union? A cross-sectional study

 

Country of birth

Eastern Europe

The former Soviet Union

  

Poland

Other

 
 

Sample size (n)

161

164

60

Psychiatric illness

Model 1a

OR (95% CI)

Adjusted for all variables (without migration-related ones)

2.06 (1.00–4.24)

2.01 (0.98–4.13)

1 (Reference)

Model 2a

OR (95% CI)

Adjusted for all variables + Language at home

2.11 (1.02–4.35)

2.05 (1.00–4.24)

1 (Reference)

Model 3a

OR (95% CI)

Adjusted for all variables + Years in Sweden

1.92 (0.90–4.08)

1.96 (0.93–4.12)

1 (Reference)

Model 4a

OR (95% CI)

adjusted for all variables, incl. both Language at home and Years in Sweden

1.94 (0.91–4.14)

1.97 (0.93–4.18)

1 (Reference)

Psychosomatic complaints

Model 1b

OR (95% CI)

Adjusted for all variables (without migration-related ones)

2.03 (1.10–3.78)

1.30 (0.71–2.38)

1 (Reference)

Model 2b

OR (95% CI)

Adjusted for all variables + Language at home

2.04 (1.07–3.79)

1.29 (0.70–2.38)

1 (Reference)

Model 3b

OR (95% CI)

Adjusted for all variables + Years in Sweden

1.67 (0.87–3.19)

1.12 (0.60–2.11)

1 (Reference)

Model 4b

OR (95% CI)

adjusted for all variables, incl. both Language at home and Years in Sweden

1.65 (0.86–3.16)

1.10 (0.60–2.53)

1 (Reference)

  1. Abbreviations: SALLS, Swedish Annual Level of Living Survey; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.