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Table 6 Logistic regression of factors associated with psychoactive substance abuse among the respondents (N = 400)

From: Psychoactive substance abuse among commercial bus drivers in Umuahia, Abia State, South-Eastern Nigeria: an uncontrolled “epidemic” with attendant road traffic crashes

Variables

p-value

Odds Ratio

95% Confidence Interval

Lower

Upper

Ethnicity

  Yoruba

 

1

  

  Igbo

0.883

1.080

0.388

3.008

  Hausa

0.106

0.201

0.029

1.406

  Others

1.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

Religion

  Christianity

0.031*

1

1.170

25.555

  Islam

0.135

5.469

0.622

34.075

  Traditional worshipper

 

4.602

  

Monthly income (in naira)

  10,000 – 19,000

0.489

0.682

0.230

2.018

  20,000 – 29,000

0.180

0.487

0.170

1.395

  30,000 – 39,000

0.647

1.303

0.420

4.038

  40,000 – 49,000

0.171

2.584

0.663

10.074

   ≥ 50,000

 

1

  

Knowledge about Substances of Abuse

  Poor

 < 0.001*

4.271

2.201

8.287

  Good

 

1

  

Perception towards Substance Abuse

  Poor

 < 0.001*

9.828

15.572

65.052

  Good

 

1

  
  1. * Statistically significant
  2. Area Under the Curve = 0.643