Odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) for self reported psychiatric illness, in successive models in different ethnic groups. Polish immigrants were the reference group
| Variable Level | Model II a Sex and age adjusted OR (95% CI) | Model II b + Marital status OR (95% CI) | Model II c + Knowledge of Swedish OR (95% CI) | Model II d + Employment OR (95% CI) | Model II e (full model) + Sense of coherence OR (95% CI) |
| Ethnicity | |||||
| Iranian | 3.13 (1.95, 5.09) | 3.08 (1.80, 5.26) | 2.49 (1.39, 4.48) | 2.14 (1.22, 3.76) | 1.86 (1.11, 3.12) |
| Chilean | 1.93 (1.25, 2.98) | 1.84 (1.14, 2.96) | 1.39 (0.82, 2.36) | 1.34 (0.81, 2.22) | 1.29 (0.81, 2.04) |
| Turkish | 1.43 (0.84, 2.43) | 1.58 (0.88, 2.83) | 1.01 (0.52, 1.94) | 0.87 (0.46, 1.63) | 0.87 (0.49, 1.53) |
| Kurdish | 0.84 (0.38, 1.84) | 0.90 (0.38, 2.12) | 0.61 (0.24, 1.55) | 0.52 (0.21, 1.28) | 0.51 (0.23, 1.17) |
| Polish | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Marital status | |||||
| Married/coh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Living alone | 2.25 (1.58, 3.21) | 2.20 (1.52, 3.17) | 1.90 (1.35, 2.66) | ||
| Knowledge of Swedish | |||||
| Good | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Poor | 2.57 (1.72, 3.85) | 2.32 (1.58, 3.43) | 1.93 (1.35, 2.76) | ||
| Employment | |||||
| Yes | 1 | 1 | |||
| No | 2.22 (1.52, 3.24) | 2.00 (1.42, 2.82) | |||
| Sense of coherence | |||||
| High | 1 | ||||
| Low | 3.58 (2.57, 5.00) | ||||
| H-L test | p=0.92 | p=0.41 | p=0.63 | p=0.10 | p=0.14 |