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Table 4 Precarious employment in 1999/2000 or 2005 and mental health at follow-up. Age-adjusted incidence rate ratios with 95 % confidence intervals of poor mental health, defined as ‘GHQ-caseness’ in 2010, in relation to precarious employment in 1999/2000 or 2005, with forward stepwise addition of potential confounding factors, calculated in a cohort of 347 men and 439 women from the Scania Public Health Cohort who were 18–34 years old and mentally healthy at baseline

From: Precarious employment is a risk factor for poor mental health in young individuals in Sweden: a cohort study with multiple follow-ups

  

Model 1 (age-adjusted)

Model 2 = Model 1

Model 3 = Model 2

Model 4 = Model 3

Model 5 = Model 4

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Gender

Low emotional and/or low instrumental support

Low social participation & neighbourhood anchorage

Economic difficulties in childhood

Precarious employment 1999/2000 – 2005

Yes vs no

1.6

1.2 – 2.2

1.6

1.2 – 2.1

1.5

1.1 – 2.1

1.5

1.1 – 2.0

1.4

1.1 – 2.0

Gender

Male vs female

  

1.3

0.99 – 1.8

1.4

1.03 – 1.9

1.4

1.02 – 1.9

1.4

1.01 – 1.8

Low emotional and/or low instrumental support

Yes vs no

    

1.3

0.9 – 1.7

1.1

0.8 – 1.6

1.1

0.8 – 1.5

Low social participation

Yes vs no

      

1.5

1.1 – 2.1

1.5

1.1 – 2.1

Low social anchorage with neighbourhood

Yes vs no

      

1.3

0.9 – 1.7

1.3

0.9 – 1.7

Economic difficulties in childhood

Yes vs no

        

1.2

0.9 – 1.7