A comparison of rural Australian First Nations and Non-First Nations survey responses to COVID-19 risks and impacts: implications for health communications

Table 5 Regression coefficients and odds ratios for the likelihood of moderate and severe forms of anxiety (i.e. perceiving harmful) due to COVID-19 by some selected significant characteristics, including the First Nations status of the respondents^a

Harmful (reference category is not harmful)
	Moderately harmful			Very Harmful
Characteristic ^b	B	Odds Ratio	95% CI	B	Odds Ratio	95% CI
Non-First Nations	-1.16	0.31	(0.034, 2.899)	-2.73	0.07***	(0.008, 0.533)
Male	-0.56	0.57	(0.237, 1.365	-0.61	0.54	(0237, 1.240)
Children under 18	0.38	1.47	(0.619, 3.483)	0.02	1.02	(0.454, 2.279)
Rural Town over 500ppl	0.42	1.52	(0.458, 5.016	-0.42	0.66	(0.230, 1.881)
Education Trade/Diploma	0.23	1.26	(0.546, 2.903)	-0.032	0.97	(0.439, 2.130)
Model Fitting information
	-2 Log Likelihood		113.622		.
	Chi-squared (df)		28.588 (10)***

^aReference category of dependent variable is not harmful
^bOmitted categories (i.e. reference class for each independent variable) not shown
*p<0·10; **p<0·05; ***p<0·01; ****p<0.001

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