Age, gender, peers, life skills and quality of life influence risk of cell phone addiction among college teachers in Karnataka, India : a state level epidemiological analysis

Table 5 Multiple logistic regression analysis of factors affecting risk of cell phone addiction among participants attending LSTCP (n = 1726)

Characteristics	Crude odds ratio	95% Confidence interval(CI)	p value^a	Adjusted odds ratio(AOR)	95% CI	p value*
Age	0.98	0.96-0.99	0.003^b	0.98	0.96-1.00	0.026^b
Gender Female Male	Reference 1.82	Reference 1.28-2.58	Reference 0.001^b	Reference 1.91	Reference 1.27-2.77	Reference 0.002^b
Number of peers	1.005	1.001-1.008	0.007^b	1.005	1-1.008	0.023^b
Empathy score	0.91	0.89-0.93	<0.001^b	0.96	0.93-0.99	0.012^b
Communication skills score	0.87	0.85-0.93	<0.001^b	0.92	0.88-0.96	<0.001^b
Physical quality of life	0.96	0.95-0.97	<0.001^b	0.96	0.95-0.98	<0.001^b
Social quality of life	0.98	0.98-1	0.01^b	1.01	1.00-1.03	0.014^b

^acrude and adjusted p value of univariate and multiple logistic regression and ^bsignificant at p < 0.05
Goodness of fit (Area Under the Curve)=0.72 ; Hosmer lemeshow chi2=1661.36, p = 0.819

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