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Table 4 Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE) for the association between neighborhood violence and disorder and anxiety among the total sample of perinatal women in the study (N = 1270)

From: Residential segregation, neighborhood violence and disorder, and inequalities in anxiety among Jewish and Palestinian-Arab perinatal women in Israel

 

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Model 4

Model 5

OR (95%CI)

OR (95%CI)

OR (95%CI)

95%CI

95%CI

Neighborhood violence and disorder

 High severity

1.83 (1.31.-2.57)***

1.44 (1.08–1.91)*

1.43 (1.08–1.89)**

1.39 (1.04–1.86)**

1.25 (0.91–1.71)

 Low severity

1.54 (1.21–1.96)***

1.56 (1.23–1.97)***

1.50 (1.19–1.89)***

1.41 (1.11–1.79)***

1.28 (1.00–1.64)**

 No problem

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

Ethno-national identity

 Palestinian-Arab

 

1.82 (1.23–2.69)**

2.12 (1.34–3.34)***

1.68 (1.09–2.60)**

1.63 (1.04–2.56)**

 Jewish

 

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

Neighborhood SES

 Low

  

0.57 (0.35–0.93)*

0.56 (0.36–0.90)*

0.60 (0.37–0.99)*

 Medium

  

0.62 (0.41–0.93)*

0.61 (0.40–0.92)*

0.61 (0.40–0.93)*

 High

  

1.00

1.00

1.00

Neighborhood aggregate discrimination

 High

  

1.30 (0.92–1.84)

1.27 (0.91–1.76)

1.25 (0.86–1.81)

 Low

  

1.00

1.00

1.00

Social cohesion

 High

  

0.62 (0.49–0.77)***

0.66 (0.52–0.83)***

0.65 (0.52–0.83)***

 Low

  

1.00

1.00

1.00

Social group membership

 At least one group membership

  

1.05 (0.83–1.33)

1.07 (0.84–1.35)

1.06 (0.84–1.34)

 No membership

  

1.00

1.00

1.00

Social and political participation

 Participated at least once

  

0.93 (0.69–1.26)

0.94 (0.70–1.26)

0.83 (0.61–1.14)

 Never participated

  

1.00

1.00

1.00

Social support

 High

   

0.47 (0.38–0.58)***

0.50 (0.40–0.63)***

 Low

   

1.00

1.00

Chronic Stress

 Missing

    

1.43 (0.86–2.37)

 Any

    

2.20 (1.75–2.77) ***

 No

    

1.00

Model fit

1746.30

1734.86

1703.19

1707.74

1639.57

  1. ***P ≤ 0.001; **P ≤ 0.010; *P ≤ 0.050 (bold = statistically significant associations)
  2. Model 1 is unadjusted;
  3. Model 2 controls for ethno-national group and individual-level attributes (previous depression and unemployment);
  4. Model 3 controls for ethno-national group, individual-level attributes and neighbohood-level characteristics;
  5. Model 4 adjusts for social support in addition to variables in Model 3
  6. Model 4 adjusts for chronic stress in addition to variables in Model 4