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Table 3 Odds Ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) for self-reported medicine use for stomach-ache by ethnic background, stratified by sex

From: Immigrant background and medicine use for aches: national representative study of adolescents

 

Medicine use for stomach-ache

Model 1

Model 2

Boys

  

  Ethnic Dane

1

1

  Descendant

2.08 (1.46-3.05)

1.97 (1.33-2.94)

  Immigrant

1.54 (1.00-2.39)

1.54 (0.99-2.44)

             Type 3 analysis

0.0001

0.0010

  Stomach-ache

 

4.91 (3.95-6.10)

Girls

  

  Ethnic Dane

1

1

  Descendant

1.38 (1.03-1.88)

1.24 (0.91-1.74)

  Immigrant

1.55 (1.14-2.11)

1.55 (1.12-2.15)

             Type 3 analysis

0.0035

0.0155

  Stomach-ache

 

5.18 (4.37-6.14)

  1. Model 1: adjusted for age group (ICC = 0.0093 for boys; 0.0061for girls).
  2. Model 2: adjusted for age group, and stomach-ache (ICC = 0.0082 for boys; 0.0060 for girls).