Ethnicity and pathways to care during first episode psychosis: the role of cultural illness attributions

BMC Psychiatry

Table 2 Ethnic variations in proportional and dichotomous illness attributions during FEP

Illness attribution	White	Black	Asian	P value	Odds ratio (95 % CI)^c
Individual	14.07%^a	10.71 %	13.57 %	0.572^b	White vs Asian	0.94 (0,35, 2.50)
					White vs Black	0.64 (0.21, 1.94)
					Black vs Asian	1.47 (0.47, 4.53)
Natural	4. 89 %	8.10	4.26 %	0.443^b	White vs Asian	1.05 (0.20, 5.51)
					White vs Black	2.33 (0.52, 10.52)
					Black vs Asian	0.45 (0.10, 2.03)
Social	6.48 %	5.95 %	2.33 %	0.373^b	White vs Asian	0.32 (0.06, 1.67)
					White vs Black	0.84 (0.22, 3.24)
					Black vs Asian	0.38 (0.07, 2.20)
Supernatural	7.0 %	11.9 %	34.11 %	0.001 ^b	White vs Asian	4.02 (1.52, 10.62)
					White vs Black	1.16 (0.38, 3.57)
					Black vs Asian	3.48 (1.25, 9.67)
No attribution	54.22 %	54.76 %	29.46 %	0.009 ^b	White vs Asian	0.33 (0.14, 0.78)
					White vs Black	0.99 (0.38, 2.56)
					Black vs Asian	0.33 (0.13, 0.84)

CI Confidence Interval; ^aMean group percentage of total attributions; ^bBased on the Kruskall-Wallis test for non-normally distributed data; ^cBased on logistic regression analysis with at least 1 attribution as the outcome, Bold typeface indicates significant Odds Ratio

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