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Table 4 Multivariate models for sickness absence due to IID for cases of school/working age (IID2 study 2008–9)

From: Socioeconomic status is associated with symptom severity and sickness absence in people with infectious intestinal disease in the UK

 

Baseline model

Baseline

+ NS-SEC

Baseline

+ NS-SEC

+ Severity

 

OR (95%CI)a

OR (95%CI)a

OR (95%CI)a

Age (years)

0.98 (0.98–0.99)

0.98 (0.98–0.99)

0.99 (0.98–1.00)

Sex

 Female

reference

reference

reference

 Male

0.95 (0.71–1.28)

0.91 (0.68–1.22)

0.92 (0.67–1.26)

Ethnicity

 White

reference

reference

reference

 Non-White

2.66 (1.16–7.22)

2.58 (1.12–7.00)

1.91 (0.80–5.31)

NS-SEC

 Managerial/professional

 

reference

reference

 Intermediate

 

1.13 (0.77–1.66)

1.05 (0.70–1.59)

 Routine/manual

 

1.83 (1.26–2.69)

1.38 (0.92–2.07)

Symptom severity

 Mild

  

reference

 Moderate

  

3.60 (2.54–5.14)

 Severe

  

5.27 (3.54–7.93)

Log-likelihood

−531.0

−525.9

−482.4

Deviance

1062.0

1051.9

964.9

AIC

1070.0

1063.9

980.9

BIC

1088.9

1092.1

1018.5

Number

818

818

818

  1. AIC Akaike information criterion, BIC Bayesian information criterion, CI confidence interval, IID infectious intestinal disease, NS-SEC National Statistics Socioeconomic Classification, OR odds ratio
  2. aSince the absence outcome was common, the odds ratios should not be interpreted as risk ratios
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