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Table 3 Mobility characteristics and psychiatric disorders

From: Forced residential mobility and social support: impacts on psychiatric disorders among Somali migrants

Variables (N)

Categories

No Psychiatric Disorder

Any Psychiatric Disorder

OR

95%CI

P

Deprivation Score at current address (N = 143)

Mean(sd)

53.7(16)

50.69 (16.89)

1

0.97-1.0

0.3

    

0.99

  

Personal choice to move

Not moved

26(28.89)

8(14.81)

1

0.4-3.67

0.73

 

Own choice

24(27.59)

9(16.67)

1.22

1.3-8.11

0.01

 

Others choice

37(42.53)

37 (68.52)

3.25

  

Personal choice to move

Not moved/own choice

50(57.47)

17(31.4)

1

1.44-6.0

0.003

 

Others choice

37(42.53)

37 (68.52)

2.94

  

Total distance moved (129)

Not moved

27 (33.8)

8 (16.3)

1

0.69-4.96

0.22

 

< 10.2 km

31 (38.8)

17 (34.7)

1.85

1.38-9.79

0.009

 

≥ 10.2 km

22 (27.5)

24 (49.0)

3.68

  

Total distance moved (94)

< 10.2 km

31 (38.8)

17 (34.7)

1

0.87-4.55

0.1

 

≥ 10.2 km

22 (27.5)

24 (49.0)

1.99

  

Distance moved in most recent move (N = 94)

Not moved

8 (15.09)

2 (4.88)

1

0.42-12.04

0.35

 

<4 km

25(47.17)

14(34.15)

2.24

0.95-26.23

0.06

 

>4 km

20(37.74)

25(60.98)

5

  

Distance moved in most recent move (N = 84)

<4 km

25(47.17)

14(34.15)

1

0.93-5.38

0.07

 

>4 km

20(37.74)

25(60.98)

2.23

  

Relative deprivation of previous and current residential areas (94)

High to Low

15 (28.3)

16 (39.02)

1

0.09-2.51

0.37

 

No change

6 (11.32)

2 (4.88)

0.46

0.61-3.6

0.38

 

Low to High

32 (60.38)

23 (56.1)

1.48

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