Association between demographic and psychosocial variables and a high level of common symptoms (CSGP index), presented as crude odds ratios (OR) and 95 per cent confidence intervals (95% CI)
| Variables | Number | High level of symptoms, % | Crude OR (95% CI) |
| Cohabitation status: | |||
| Cohabiting | 337 | 33.0 | 1 (reference) |
| Living alone | 57 | 42.1 | 1.48 (0.80, 2.74) |
| Educational level: | |||
| >11 years | 147 | 30.2 | 1 (reference) |
| ⩽11 years | 233 | 37.7 | 1.45 (0.93, 2.25) |
| Monthly income: | |||
| >10 000 SEK | 206 | 33.0 | 1 (reference) |
| ⩽10 000 SEK | 167 | 36.5 | 1.17 (0.76, 1.79) |
| Employment status: | |||
| Employed | 320 | 29.4 | 1 (reference) |
| Unemployed | 77 | 53.2 | 2.74 (1.65, 4.55) |
| Work related psychosocial factors: | |||
| No job strain | 233 | 25.3 | 1 (reference) |
| Job strain | 109 | 49.5 | 2.90 (1.80, 4.67) |
| Social network/support indices: | |||
| Social support: | |||
| High/medium | 303 | 28.4 | 1 (reference) |
| Low | 94 | 52.1 | 2.75 (1.71, 4.42) |
| Social anchorage: | |||
| High/medium | 303 | 28.1 | 1 (reference) |
| Low | 94 | 53.2 | 2.91 (1.81, 4.69) |
| Social participation: | |||
| High/medium | 261 | 29.9 | 1 (reference) |
| Low | 136 | 41.9 | 1.69 (1.10, 2.61) |
| Sense of coherence: | |||
| High/medium | 267 | 20.1 | 1 (reference) |
| Low | 130 | 60.8 | 5.84 (3.69, 9.24) |
| Childhood experience of violence or abuse: | |||
| None | 263 | 30.4 | 1 (reference) |
| Yes | 128 | 42.2 | 1.67 (1.08, 2.59) |
| Type of experience: | |||
| Occasionally beaten by adult | 109 | 40.4 | 1.55 (0.97, 2.46) |
| Sexual advances by adult | 13 | 38.5 | 1.43 (0.45, 4.51) |
| Regularly beaten by adult | 6 | 83.3 | 11.44 (1.32, 99.48) |
| Adult experience of violence or abuse: | |||
| None | 326 | 30.7 | 1 (reference) |
| Yes | 62 | 50.0 | 2.26 (1.30, 3.92) |
| Type of experience: | |||
| Sexual advances in the workplace | 18 | 38.9 | 1.44 (0.54, 3.82) |
| Assault and battery | 32 | 53.1 | 2.56 (1.23, 5.33) |
| Sexual abuse | 12 | 58.3 | 3.16 (0.98, 10.21) |