Behavioral health risk factor profiles in general hospital patients: identifying the need for screening and brief intervention

Table 5 Multivariate poisson regression analysis predicting the number of reported health risk factors (n = 6205)

Predictors		incident rate ratio	95% CI	p
Medical department (internal medicine*)	General surgery	0.99	0.93–1.04	0.638
	Ear-nose-throat	1.02	0.97–1.07	0.430
	Trauma surgery	1.01	0.96–1.06	0.655
Gender (female*)	Male	1.18	1.14–1.23	< 0.001
Age group (18–34 years*)	35–49 years	1.13	1.07–1.19	< 0.001
Age group (18–34 years*)	50–64 years	1.07	1.02–1.12	0.01
Achieved school level (highest*)	Lowest	1.39	1.31–1.48	< 0.001
Achieved school level (highest*)	Medium	1.23	1.16–1.30	< 0.001
Employment status (employed*)	Unemployed	1.12	1.06–1.19	< 0.001
Employment status (employed*)	Other	0.99	0.95–1.04	0.677

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