Skip to main content

Table 3 Univariate associations between diabetes and factors related to colonization

From: Do discrimination, residential school attendance and cultural disruption add to individual-level diabetes risk among Aboriginal people in Canada?

Parameter

Diabetes Prevalence (%)

Odds Ratio (95 % CI)

Parameter

Diabetes Prevalence (%)

Odds Ratio (95 % CI)

Residential School Attendance

     

Study participant?

  

Take part in cultural events?

  

Yes

13.5

1.10 (0.74, 1.66)

Always/almost always

12.3

1.08 (0.45, 2.60)

No

12.4

1.00 (ref)

Sometimes

14.3

1.29 (0.60, 2.78)

   

Rarely

9.8

0.84 (0.34, 2.12)

Parents/grandparents?

  

Never

11.4

1.00 (ref)

Yes

12.2

0.65 (0.36, 1.19)

   

Do not know

13.3

0.72 (0.28, 1.85)

Community Strengthb

  

No

17.4

1.00 (ref)

Low

14.2

1.28 (0.85, 1.95)

   

High

11.4

1.00 (ref)

Experience discriminationa

     

High (8–11)

2.4

0.15 (0.03, 0.65)

Past Year Spent on Reserve

  

Moderate (4–7)

15.1

1.15 (0.70, 1.87)

All 12 months

15.5

2.46 (1.48, 4.08)

Little (0–3)

13.6

1.00 (ref)

Less than 12 months

7.0

1.00 (ref)

Language

Can speak Cree

21.2

3.65 (2.37, 5.64)

   

Cannot speak Cree

6.9

1.00 (ref)

   
  1. aThis variable was created by summing up the affirmative responses to 11 situations (see methods)
  2. bThis variable was created by summing up the affirmative responses to 12 strengths in the community. If the study participant perceived less than or equal to 4 community strengths it was coded as low, and if greater than 4 community strengths it was coded as high