Correct recognition and continuum belief of mental disorders in a nursing student population

BMC Psychiatry

Table 5 Relationship between continuum belief and the non-identification of mental illness

		OR	95% CI		p-value
Continuum belief score		1.360	1.011	1.829	0.042
Age group	<21 years	Ref.	-	-	-
Age group	21 years and above	0.686	0.309	1.523	0.354
Gender	Female	Ref.	-	-	-
Gender	Male	1.899	0.938	3.842	0.075
Ethnicity	Chinese	Ref.	-	-	-
	Malay	1.830	0.907	3.692	0.092
	Indian and Others	1.850	0.813	4.213	0.143
Monthly household income	Below 2000	Ref.	-	-	-
	2000–3999	0.541	0.256	1.143	0.108
	4000 and above	1.176	0.605	2.285	0.663
Education	Vocational	Ref.	-	-	-
	Diploma	1.252	0.566	2.768	0.578
	Tertiary	1.047	0.340	3.227	0.936
Stage of nursing education^a	1^st year	Ref.	-	-	-
	2^nd year	0.882	0.389	1.999	0.764
	3^rd year	0.456	0.142	1.469	0.188
	4^th year	1.129	0.358	3.560	0.837
Lecture and small group teaching	Attended	Ref.	-	-	-
Lecture and small group teaching	Not attended	0.677	0.303	1.513	0.342
Clinical placement	Attended	Ref.	-	-	-
Clinical placement	Not attended	1.512	0.655	3.492	0.333
Vignette type	Schizophrenia	Ref.	-	-	-
	Depression	0.266	0.111	0.636	0.003
	Dementia	0.346	0.152	0.790	0.012
	OCD	0.133	0.049	0.363	<0.001
	Alcohol abuse	0.289	0.126	0.664	0.003
Has experience dealing with someone having problems similar to “X”	No	Ref.	-	-	-
	Yes	0.710	0.367	1.373	0.309
Has friends and family with problems similar to “X”	No	Ref.	-	-	-
Has friends and family with problems similar to “X”	Yes	0.535	0.247	1.160	0.113

^aOR was not estimated for 5^th year students (n = 22) due to zero case endorsing non-mental illness
All variables except continuum belief score were entered into the logistic regression model as covariates
CI confidence interval, OR odds ratio

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